The people of Daysimir are a hardy, independent, and freedom-loving folk, heavily armed and used to telling authority figures to go to Hell when their interference becomes annoying. Many of them were veterans of the conquest of the planet by the Tau Empire, and the following guerrilla war to free it. Resistance forces eventually won with the help of Eldar strike-teams from Exodite worlds in the sector and a nearby Craftworld. After 12 years of bloody guerrilla warfare beside their Eldar allies, along with the occasional Gue’Vesa or Kroot Turncloaks, the people of Daysimir shed the Imperial propaganda that the Ecclesiarchy had managed to hammer into the population after Imperial forces shut down their trade with nearby Xenos Empires. Since the end of the war the neither the Ecclesiarchy or anti-Xenos propaganda have been welcome on Daysimir, and clandestine trade with old Eldar allies continues in the wilderness to this day, far from prying eyes.

It was because of this bloody-minded independence, martial spirit, and near-total disregard for the ancient Laws of the Imperium that Governor Rodoris was blocked from tyrannizing his people, by fear of a planet-wide rebellion, and was thus limited to squandering tax money on a lavish palace and personal pleasures instead of holding his populace in an iron grip as he had intended. The Governor was eventually removed from power when he began cracking down on the ancient civil rights of the planets citizens. Imperial authorities in the sector feared that a successful rebellion (As the PDF had atrophied from constant embezzling of funds for several decades) would encourage unrest across dozens of worlds and removed him from office. The planet is also unusual in that most positions normally held by Techpriests are instead occupied by civilian engineers and technicians, leaving the Techpriests in control of only the most complex and advanced pieces of machinery and greatly reducing the amount of influence the AdMech holds over the planetary government. The population of Daysimir boasts both a very low rate of mutation and almost twice the number of Geneseed-Compatible citizens, making it a popular recruiting world for fleet-based Astartes Chapters.

The planet is also home to several million Ogryns living in tribal groups on the northern reaches of your world, which has had the effect of making your people far more tolerant of Abhumans and even more mistrustful of the Ecclesiarchy. Until the Tau occupation and Rodoris the Sixth’s disastrous appointment to Governor, it was customary for the Regiments Ogryn attachment to simply be recruited from their homeworld.

The Nobilis Proscriptae Sector is located on the farthest reaches of the Eastern Fringe, being far enough away from both the Tau Empire and Ultramarine space to keep interference by both parties to a minimum. In the immediate sub-sector (Called Kri by the local merchants) there are three Civilized worlds, eight Frontier worlds (Backwater Civilized worlds with little to no Imperial presence, often ignore Imperial laws concerning trade with Xenos, although this is true of most of the sector) one Feudal world, and a Death World that is the proud home of the fiercest and most highly decorated Regiment in the sector.

In the sector at large is more of the same, a mix of Frontier and Civilized worlds with a peppering of feudal and feral worlds. In the capitol system of the sector there is one Hive World (Magnoris, the Sector Capitol) one Forge World, two civilized worlds, one Agri-world, and a very lucrative asteroid belt mining colony.

Of the Xenos presence in the sector, there are four major Empires: The Xin'Tar Warrior Hives to the "Southern” edge of the sector, the Kraan Hegemony to the North, The Jarki stars to the center of the sector, and an unknown reptilian race run by a "Cabal" in the East (And that's right near you!). There are also five Eldar Exodite Worlds, three Ork worlds (which are a constant pain in the ass) and one Daemon world (Which is a bigger pain in the ass to everyone than everything else in the sector combined). There are also several dozen minor Xenos races whose dominions extend over only one planet.

Items of interest:

There is a nest of Genestealers festering beneath your capitol; they have apparently been breeding domesticated Hormagaunts smuggled from the same Tyranid-threatened world they came from.

The Iron Dragons Chapter has come to aide you in cleansing the Genestealer infestation. They have also shown interest in putting down roots on your planet as a Homeworld.

A message has been sent to the Sisters of Battle and Ultramarine forces en route to deal with said Genestealers that the Iron Dragons are already on-site and dealing with the problem. The Sisters have sent back an affirmative and are changing course to engage a particularly troublesome band of Ork pirates, the Ultramarines have simply replied that they will be there shortly to “Clear up this matter” and have remained silent ever since.

Infrastructure repair is 68% complete.

Your capitol has been renovated to serve as the “Las Vegas” of your sector; tourism has been halted for the moment until the Genestealer crisis is taken care of. (Will become a +8 Currency income from tourism per year when the Spaceport is re-opened)

Orbital Defense repair is 40% complete.

The PDF is re-armed, trained, and enlarged.

You have 38 Currency in your Treasury.

Your annual income is 11 Currency (13 when infrastructure repair is complete) plus a bi-annual 15 from your Trade Fleet (Which cost 200 Currency)

Notes to self:

Contact the AdMech about procuring improved lasguns for the PDF and personal guards, and selling the old stock off on the civilian market.

Consider converting the moon of your world into a massive orbital defense station and shipyard.

Consider changing the name of your planet to something more “Grimdark” at the behest of citizens who are tired of being called “Daisies” by off-worlders.

Discuss starting up a Xenos-Artifact distribution business with your RT friend, allowing Xenos merchants and human buyers to trade freely using Rogue Traders as middlemen to put a “sanction stamp” on Xenos artifacts to prevent the Inquisition from having cause to come down on you.

>>18443590
Offer the sisters to resupply and rest at our planet once they're done with their mission. (And we will hopefully have dealt with our Tyranid problem by then.)

Currently you are dealing with a Genestealer infestation in the sewers beneath your capitol, who were apparently breeding domesticated Hormagaunts as cannon-fodder. You are also negotiating with Chapter Master Raltus Ar’kyn of the Iron Dragons Chapter (Salamanders Successor, 21st Founding) concerning their settlement on your world as a Homeworld while five companies of his Astartes outfitted in Mark III Iron armor cleanse your sewers of Genestealer taint.

Conditions agreed upon so far:

The Chapter will take no part in your Government beyond an advisory role.

You will provide the Chapter with the raw mineral resources to feed their forges.

The Chapter will train your PDF and Guard to the highest quality.

Raltus suggests that fortified Chapter Bastions be built in all of your cities, after the manner of the Salamanders on their homeworld.

>You action, Governor?

>>18443614

Message sent and received.

>>18443617
These suggestions all sound very reasonable.

Exclude ship construction beyond repairs from the resources deal. Mining the resources for a cruiser or something like that would probably do lasting damage to the planet.

Consult the leader of the militia concerning these things. Especially the Chapter Bastions in every city. I've got a feeling he might object to that.

>>18443660

The Forges in question manufacture weapons, armor, and vehicles for the Iron Dragons. To build or even do extensive repairs on any but the smallest of vessels requires a massive dedicated shipyard, almost no one in the Imperium but the AdMech builds ships of any kind.

Davos says over the radio that he will be there shortly to take part in the negotiations directly.

Status update on clearing the Genestealers?

>>18443920

Slow going, but progress is definitely being made.

After briefly consulting his lieutenants, Davos says he finds nothing wrong with this agreement, so long as the Planetary Government remains strictly independent of the Chapter.

Davos brings several sheets of paper out of a battered sack.

'I do have something you could help with, however. You see, we have always prided ourselves on our independence and self-sufficiency, but at the moment we are more reliant on trade than most realize. Many of our utilities and complex pieces of machinery, along with cybernetic limbs and organs, advanced medicines, and the very weapons our PDF relies on require replacement parts and specialists from off-planet, as we simply do not have the local tech-level to supply them ourselves. Perhaps your Techmarines could train our native technicians and engineers in advanced technology and upgrade our local manufacturing infrastructure so that we could support a more advanced technological base on our own? (Davos proposes that the Iron Dragons uplift your tech level from High Space (Somewhat more advanced than modern-day Earth) to Mid Imperial (Locally manufactured Cybernetics available for wealthy citizens, tech level high enough to manufacture most Imperial Guard weapons and vehicles without off-planet parts and experts)

>Do you wish to add to this?

oh wow, I'm actually around for the start of this.

This genestealer problem lurks beneath a heavily populated area, correct?

If we could evacuate the area, could we have a ship lance the site from orbit? We set up an outer containment zone far enough to be safe from the lance strike, have the marines hold the inner area and then fall back to our positions before the lance strike?

We can't really risk such a dangerous infestation surviving this, and the lance should be able to crush the center of genestealer resistance allowing us to mop up the fringes.

this could be overkill, but might lower our casualties in the long run.

>>18443941

He has plans for this handy? What an enterprising little bugger...
BTW sorry I missed last session, the lateness through me off.

The tech upgrade is a must. Also how are the repairs coming on our orbital defenses and what kind of things can we do at the moment to upgrade / prepare our airforce in case of invasion?

>>18443941

Sounds good to me, but lets try to focus more on the economic advantages of the uplift. After all, there will always be someone more advanced than us that we can buy out.

>>18443972
I'd rather not. Then we'll just lose all the work we put into Speehs Vegas. I also feel like that wouldn't exactly sit well with anyone.

>>18443972

A lance strike would do massive damage to your capitol, and the Iron Dragons with Spec Ops and PDF support seem to have the situation in hand, although it is slow going.

You already have several drill-teams on standby to pump liquid Promethium into the core of the nest and burn it out once it has been pinpointed and quarantined.

>>18444027
>>18444003

right, don't want to damage the upgrades.

Davos' addition seems like a good idea to at least request, though won't doing so anger the AdMech? Unless the techmarines will be inducting our people into the cult mechanicus?

I can't be arsed to look through the previous threads, I missed one or two I think. But the Iron dragons having NO role in the government of their own homeworld besides advising, even though they are a minor chapter, doesn't feel right. They're still astartes.

rolled 6, 20 = 26

>>18444099
They're bros though.

>>18444027
It seems we already are doing the best we can to contain the genestealers. I would suggest implementing mandatory genetic screening of everyone in the PDF and ranking civilian positions like the Ecclesiarchy and Administratum. The stealers fight best through their cults, which frequently attempt to covert and infect important officials. All the better to pave the way for the Hive Fleet.

>>18444143

This anon's advice should be followed. We should attempt to scan these populations as discreetly as possible; the last thing we need is a whole PDF platoon defecting en mass to the sewers.

Have the Iron Dragons move forwards with basically all of their proposals; they're bros and shall be treated as such.

>>18444001

By increasing your Tech Level by two notches you will be providing a massive boost to your economy. There are only a handful of Mid Imperial worlds and only three High Imperial planets (All of them in the Capitol system, Forge Worlds have a Tech Level all their own) in the entire sector, giving you a great advantage in inter-planetary trade, creating new jobs by having more manufacturing locally, and would also prevent some of your more advanced infrastructure from collapsing if Warp Storms or other events cut you off from the rest of the Imperium.

>>18444001

Orbital defense repairs are 40% complete. Your Air-force is non-existent, but the Departmento Munitorum representative will be there shortly to oversee the expanding of your PDF and negotiate with you regarding getting a better mark of lasgun for use by PDF and your personal guard. If you know the Munitorum he will also want words regarding the Planetary Tithe in both resources and men.

>>18444143
>>18444189

Testing has been implemented in your capitol already, more discreet testing is beginning among PDF and high-ranking individuals across the planet.

Raltus nods "Having a more advanced infrastructure can only be beneficial to us both. While we're on the subject of mutually beneficial improvements, it has come to my attention that your planet lacks any orbital infrastructure beyond one major spaceport. High-altitude scans conducted while searching for a suitable site for our new Fortress Monastery revealed that this planet once had an orbital docking station more than suitable for the needs of our Chapter fleet. If we could pool our resources, tow it back into orbit, and repair it then it could greatly benefit us both."

>>18444221

agree to the space dock reclamation.
Suggest that we name it after a hero of the genestealer purge, once it has been dealt with.

>>18444221
>tow it back

So we've got an orbital facility just floating free in space?

Heck yeah, we're towing it back. Ask if the Marines would be willing to sweep it first, make sure the tyranids didn't put any sleeper agents onboard while it was a derelict. They love doing that. Would be a great way to train some PDF too.

The munitorum guy will want to hike our tithes. If we let him do that we'll slow down ALL our improvements. Try to explain to him that we're undoing a whole lot of idiocy, and if he lets us build up first we'll be able to produce a lot more for the Imperium than if he starts squeezing now.

Whoever keeps trying to get the sisters here: You are going to get us blamm'd for heresy. Our people, at ALL levels of society, are trading with xenos and have xenotech.

They can dock, recover, build a church or two, but then we need to send them on their way.

Agreed, tow it back in and let's start on that after the genestealers.
So any other pressing problems or are we ready to retire for the evening?

>>18444246
>>18444271

Most likely the Munitorum representative is simply going to affirm that you will actually pay the Tithes, unlike your predecessor.

Raltus smiles "Not just one, We've also detected dozens of derelict orbital defense platforms floating around the system, it looks like they were abandoned long before the Tau occupation. If we could pull them in we'd have a reliable defensive grid around the planet."

Davos suggests that you name the docking station after Davian Amir, a senior sewer technician who was almost solely responsible for convincing his fellows to guide your combined forces into the depths of Genestealer territory.

Captain Irak'than of the First Company reports over the radio: "The Noose is closed, drill teams are in position. All forces are advised to prepare for a mad rush by Tyranid forces to escape the conflagration."

>>18444516
This is gonna be good. We should record this for future propaganda use.

>>18444544

Dozens of news cameras are rolling both on the surface, in the air, and down in the tunnels.

The drills begin grinding down, penetrating almost 300ft below the city streets before retracting. soon they are replaced with promethium pumps.

Minutes later, the ignition charges are set off.

It begins as a rumble, building to the roar of some long-forgotten beast. a geyser of flame roars out of the drill holes, and on camera screens you see a wall of fire rushing out of the Nest towards the barricades. The assorted humans duck down under cover, but the Iron Dragons stand up to meet the flames, seem to be almost embracing them. Shortly after the cameras go dark.

Davos bends down and presses his ear to a handheld radio. Then he clears his throat. "It... Would appear that over three and a half times more Promethium was used than was planned on. There aren't any casualties so far, but we have a lot of badly burned PDF and News people to evac to the surface. My men stayed behind hard cover and the Astartes...are, well, Astartes."

He grins. "At least we know that the Tyranids have been well toasted."

Astartes is to move in and confirm kills at their own pace.

Speak with the chapter master. Express concern over the enviromental damage of the mining.

Get a rough estimate over what the imperial tithe will be.

>>18444632

shit
medicae teams to double time it to the wounded


have the drill holes turned into a memorial for those lost and wounded in this battle. Perhaps an obelisk. Each and every soul lost or wounded will be recorded upon the monument.

>>18444632
See if there is anything useful amongst the charred remains of the hive.

Fuck the Sisters and the Smurfs, Iron Dragons are where it's at.

Also see if you can try to do some agriculture reform and improvement, more tech/manufacturing means more people in the cities, and a bigger food drain, furthermore you can use the extra food for tithes/cash.

While we're in space repairing the orbitals, see about the fesability of mining on the moon and conduct a mineral survey, iirc Luna has valuable metals are ores that are much rarer than on Terra (I.E. Platinum.)

>orbital defense grid

I came.

Get the wounded to medicae facilties, and find out who the hell overloaded the promethium pumps. Someone's losing their job.

How does Amir Docking Station sound?

Make some visits to the wounded in person.

>>18444632
Better safe then sorry.

>>18444632
Good, Now our priorities are: 1 Infrastructure repair , 2 Orbital Defense repair, 3 Tech level bump up, 4 Draging the space assets back into place In this order of importance.

Also we should look into raising a Ogryn heavy regiment to supplement our pdf.

>>18444702
>>18444672

These two.

Additionally, we need to sweep the sewers extensively for remnants of infestation and also structural damage.

We're going to want to get to repairs immediately.

>>18444544

Astartes have already begun moving in and cleansing the sewers. However, it could take weeks before it is absolutely certain that the infestation has been put down.

Raltus raises an eyebrow "If I remember correctly it was you that suggested that part of the deal in the first place. Aside from that, Astartes equipment, while advanced, is meant to last, and is always repaired or re-fitted if at all possible. Our manufacturing would take a negligible amount of resources compared to normal planetary industry."

The Tithes demanded of Rodoris before his removal come to 60 Currency and 350,000 Men. The monetary Tithe may be raised a bit if the Tech Level is raised before he arrives, and if you have Chimeras in local production then you'll be bound to supply a few of those too, along with supplying all the Chimeras your Regiment needs (although producing your own vehicles will grant you a tax break big enough that you'll come out slightly ahead).

>>18444702

Medicae and Iron Dragon Apothecaries are evacuating the wounded as you speak.

Librarians are searching the remains of the Hive for clues as to how the Genestealers bound the Hormagaunt swarms to their will. The wounded Patriarch has been located and put down.

>>18444761
>>18444794

Raltus agrees to conduct mineral surveys of the moon soon, Strike Cruisers and Frigates are towing platforms into orbit as you speak.

Many of Rodoris' people are still in important offices, so it was probably one of them. You've replaced almost all lower positions with competent elected officials, but you don't have enough of your old Navy staff on hand to replace all of the higher-ups. Perhaps you can start replacing them with competent locals?

>>18444799

You put it on your schedule.

>>18444804

Priority list has been made official. You have people start looking into training and equipping local Ogryns.

>>18444813

Done and done.

>>18444859
>Patriarch dead

Good. The cult is dead then, and it's just a mop-up from here on. Some hive fleet is lost in the middle of nowhere, now.

Yeah, we can let the astartes build their stuff. It'll boost everything: Morale, loyalty, martial skill, technology, etc. And fortresses will make our world almost impossible to take. Fucking Tau have another thing coming if they try again.

That tithe... ouch. I think we can spare the men, but I dunno about the currency. Maybe if we can get our chimaeras produced like you suggested, we can give them those instead of the cash?

>>18444930

We should contact the SoB and Ultramarines and notify them that the Genestealers have been dealt with, although the Ork Rok is still a threat.

>>18444956
wait

aren't recruiting worlds exempt from tithes?

>>18444859
Right back to our other projects

New things
Start having any unused ships start dragging orbital defense platforms into proper alinement for a defense grid (we can repair them later).

Start selling government license to use the chimera blueprints to those factories who want to use it.

Send people out to talent find among the locals to replace the old guard of the last governor but only replace those we can find to be incompetent.

>>18444964
... you know, that might be true. Aren't the aspirants considered the tithe?

>>18444930
The businessmen wanted nothing to do with politics. Let's take a survey of who's leftover from Rodoris' days. Find the toadies and the goons, throw them out on their faces.

Get replacements from anywhere competent people can be found. Administratum people, PDF retiress, maybe a techpriest would like to be our chief engineer? One of them wouldn't have made that mistake.

>>18444964
I think that's only for worlds like Cadia and Krieg where the value of their recruits outstrips anything else.

Quite frankly, we don't have enough people to fufill tithes using only recruits.

Let's see if we can get our RT friend to get his hand on some rare/valuable crops, ATM we've got a lot of agri-power, so we should utilize some of that, look for crops that are valuable/rare or have medicinal properties, and are hopefully hardy and don't have a habit of turing into a weed.

I think we should contact the Munitorium/RT and get maybe a squad of stormtroopers assigned to the planet to help us rebuild/train the pdf, having astartes is nice, but they don't fight like the guard, or like regular humans for the matter.

Also since we're going for tourism and shit, maybe we should set some land aside for eco-tourism and animal reserves/safari

>>18444964
>>18445005
We're still in negotiations. And this is back-tithe that Rodoris owed. We have to pay this.

>>18445092
We've got a lot of dudes training the PDF. Astartes and resistance men among them.

We're good for training, I think. And I don't wanna deal with the Munitorum any more than I have to. They will bleed us dry.

>>18444956
>>18444959

The agreement is sealed. You're not sure if the Munitorum rep will agree to just take Chimeras and men, but you can probably work something out.

Sisters and Ultramarines were informed that the situation was under control at the beginning of the thread. Sisters pulled off to engage Ork Raiders, but the Ultramarines simply said they'd be there shortly to “Clear up this matter” and have remained silent ever since. You get no response from them, but the Sisters ask you to pass on congratulations for prompt service to the Emperor to the Iron Dragons.

>>18445003

Done, done, and done.

>>18444964
>>18445005
Only if the planet is under Chapter control. So unless you want to hand over the Governor badge to Raltus you have to face the tax man.

>>18445007

The Families didn't, but they do not equal all of the competent people available.

>>18445034

He says he has several items that might be of interest, if you'll go down to the Spaceport and look over his wares again.

>>18445092

The RT Mercenaries are always available for whatever you need them for...at a price.

You certainly have enough wilderness, plus descendents of authentic Terran wildlife.

>>18445110
For a squad of stormtroopers? They might be valuable, but they're only 10 men.

While I don't doubt the resistance's skill, they seem to be more versed in guerrilla combat than conventional warfare.

>>18445131
>descendents of authentic Terran wildlife

Is that impressive, or something that most worlds have?

Maybe we could attract a Magos Biologis to rework the genetics and bring back cows or something? Real beef must be an improvement over groxburgers.

>>18445034
I'd rather be a tech world than an agri-world. Not quite a forge-world but pretty up there.

>>18445131

have we started plans for a memorial to those lost and injured during the xenos purge?

>>18445154
We could have them train a regiment of "forward troops" that land on a planet a few weeks or months before the invasion force proper and do horrible, horrible things to infrastructure.

Wouldn't it be nice if every planet we attacked had no leadership, no war production and no power? All thanks to a few brave men planting bombs all over the place.

This would be a good time me to mention that you're almost broke, unless you want to put a project or two on hiatus or crack open the funds set aside for paying the back Tithe (Not a very good idea if you want to stay on the Munitorums good side) You are effectively out of spending money for the time being (Still got more than enough to complete current projects and keep things running).

Iron Dragons Strike Cruisers have eliminated several pieces of the destroyed Rok that developed crude engines and attempted to make a break for the planet.

>>18445199
Well, then let's just stick with what we've got.

This isn't really an emergency so we don't wanna sell off assets. And we HAVE to stay on the Departmento's good side. If they hate us, we can expect enough red tape to tie the planet to the moon and drag it out of system.

We've got a lot happening anyways. PDF training, orbital defense rebuilding, Astartes doing stuff, rebuilding infrastructure and political stuff, etc.

We've probably done more in one month than Rodoris did in his whole career.

>>18445131
RT Mercs would be good, IIRC RT's tend to emply Guard vets and the like, enquire to hiring mercs that have ties to the guard.

We should contiune to look for any unique/rare/valuable goods/crops that we can produce. Chimera production is nice, but our production rates won't be anywhere near that of a forge/hive world, we have to compensate our lack of industry with especially valuable commodities and agriculture.

>>18445245
Yes lets wait while our projects run.

The other way to look at this is to sell some of our artshit and use the funds raised to invest in economic ventures, the faster we get our economy rolling, the faster we can start doing other shit.

>>18445304
You know, like rush-buying in a 4x game, sure the costs are outraegeous, but the time advantage can outweight the cost, and with economic buildings, you can make more money big paying up-front and having it running, than wating and having it come into effect later.

>>18445304
>>18445334
We could, but that's risky as hell and I would prefer to keep the artsy stuff as a sort of investment. We should liquidate them when we're facing a serious emergency, not to buy a year's advantage when there's no serious threats against us.

>>18445334
>>18445304
I would prefer to have something to fall back on instead of running on the edge. Plus we are using the artwork as a base for space Las Vegas.

What kind of on-world mining operations do we have? Also, do we have any equiptment to scan the planet's crust to find mineral deposits?

>>18445274
>>18445334
>>18445354
>>18445369

You already sold off Rodoris' private collections to fuel improvements and upgrades. There are still artifacts and relics on public display though.

>>18445245
>>18445267
>>18445274

Look over RT wares, hire Mercs for training in addition to Astartes and Spec Ops, and then timeskip to Munitorum visit?

>>18445390
No off world stuff, and we already have a strong planetary mining sector. (we historically payed some of our tithe with raire minerals and metals)

>>18445390

Various mineral resources are your planets primary export. You do not have any advanced scanning equipment at the moment.

>>18445496
Let's acquire scanning equiptment. I want to ramp up our production and refinement of precious commodities to get higher income.

>>18445520
Lets wait till we have more spare money.

>>18445530
You gotta spend money to make money, mother fucker.

I have to step out for a while. I'll be back in 10-15 minutes with RT goods, then timeskip to Munitorum visit.

>>18445566
Yes but you never want to be broke when an unexpected problem crops up.

Guys, I got an Idea.

We make a movie about the overthrowing of the corrupt governer.

Typical hollywood action movie, former govenor a ruthless tyrant, scheming along with his cronies with the evil tau for personal gain, with the resistance as brave heroes fighting to keep their world, with an obligitory romance, ending with the corrupt dictator overthrown, and a good, well functioning governemt established at the end, at the end it'll be dedicated to "the brave heroes who saved our world".

It'll make huge money on this world, paint us AND the resistance in a favourable light, which will boost relations with them, and it'll make the ex-govoner and his cronies look even more dispicable, we can even sell distributing rights to other planets in the sector to make more money!

It's revenue and propaganda in one neat package!

>>18445608
I'll see you guys in 3-4 hours. Good luck and don't die.

Accept the Iron Dragon's offer if we haven't already. Draw up plans to establish a moon base but wait until we've paid the tithe first.

Start saving up to pay the tithe, even if we can't pay it fully, we have to demonstrate that we are trying.

>>18445855
Moon Base is too fucking expensive, when we get the funds we should start exploring using the moon for mining/manufacturing, we should only look to using the moon as a military installation after we got our economy running at peak effiency AND we have all the oribitals up and running..

>>18445639
Risky, people still distrust propaganda of any kind. We might get away with a horror flick about some PDF up on one of the orbital platforms, playing cat and mouse with 'nids. Slip in some subtle propaganda (the one guy who runs screaming get's eaten while the ones that stand and fight live) and see if any of the marines or sisters want in on it.

>>18445948
It's not propaganda, it's a patriotic film, in which the righteous resistance overthrew the obviously evil govener.

All we have to do is get the govoner to be played by a british guy, and the resistance leader played by Mel Gibson and we'll be making bank.

Then we can start merchandising the FUCK out of the movie.

>>18445639

Considering that that isn't even close to how it actually happened, and the population doesn't really approve of Propaganda, that may not sell so well on this particular planet. May be good for release into the sector at large.

>>18445855

You have a special savings account set aside to pay the monetary part of the Tithe, the manpower, on the other hand...

As Malector escorts you to the Spaceport, you notice a large group of his Armsmen being shipped out on landing craft, presumably to your PDF bases to begin training, as well as a rather unusual vehicle.

You blink several times to make sure you were seeing it correctly; "Is that...Is that a *Land Raider*?"

He beams with pride at the colossal War Machine rumbling down the lane and gestures to several Iron Dragons glaring at the procession from the sidewalk. "Let it never be said that I under-charge my clients."

(CONT with goods.)

>>18445992
Post>>18445639
Blatantly says it's propaganda. We've got to be subtle about these things. Our population is still armed to the teeth and suspicious of authority.

Okay, I'll admit the idea is sound, but the Ecclesiarchy (how the fuck do you pronounce that) left grudges. On the other hand, the same Ecclesiarchy would come down like a hammer if we show any measure of impiety in the production. The Sisters are already on-planet and the marines wouldn't bat an eye if we're converted into a shrine world.

Let's just ditch the movie idea. If we want to make a patriotic film, we'll grab a movie-maker and have him do it for us. We're a governor, not a director. DELEGATE.

Shit, something else came up. I WILL be back in an hour or two, so keep those tabs open.

In the meantime, I leave you with a gift:

>http://imgur.com/a/3oH6A

>>18446179
Both of those posts were by me brah.
I didn't mean it as literal propaganda, more like a action flick that takes VERY generous liberties with the souce material, like The Patriot, Braveheart, or 300.

Action movie where the sides are obvious black and white, good triumphs over evil, standard hollywood fare.

Resistance are the Rebel Alliance/Americans/Scottish, Empire/British is the govener, and our government is the New Republic.

I say one word, and everyone jumps on it and ignores the rest...

>>18446277
Well of course you wouldn't make it yourself, why would you think I meant it in person.

I'm with >>18446277
Pitch the idea to the movie makers, keep the rights to merchandise. If it all goes south, we crucify the director and maybe some of the cast and crew and pretend we had nothing to do with it.

I wasn't thinking we'd be making the movie directly, but rather we could act as the publishers, invest money into the production, then we rake in the profits when it sells, then create plans for mechandising and a tv series based off it.

I don't know why you guys would think the movie would sell poorly, people tend to like movies where their faction is potrayed as the heroes and shit.

It'll be "Based on a true story".

Basically what i'm aiming for is "Cain's Heroes: The Movie"; very loosely based on a true story and popular as fuck.

>>18446532
ah, so we have consensus.

This is fascinating, and for now I am going to sit back and watch.

Question; where did the previous govenor get all his artwork from? If all the artwork was made locally, we could help make the planet famous for it's artwork, which we could sell directly, or we could use for art galleries and tourism/casinos.

We also might want to check up on our law enforcement, as there'll likely be a increase in crime with all the tourism and gambling going on.

Waitaminute, those small islands that are unused with the harsh climes, couldn't we turn some of them into training zones?

Like import some deadly beasts, and dump them on a couple of islands, then we could have the pdf train there like it's a minature catachan.

Naturally the islands would be forbidden to non-military/support personnel, to prevent poaching/theft of animals/flora.

Care would have to be taken to only use plants/animals that couldn't overrun the entire planet though.

Naturally this would only be implemented when we have a bunch of money around.

Even if we can't get the animals/plants to live on these islands, we'd still have a bunch of islands with harsh conditions isolated from populations, which would be good for training, albiet less effective.

>>18448149
It's possible it was imported, which would be just like a corrupt governor.
Assuming it wasn't all destroyed, we could make a museum or art gallery. Offer some entertainment.
Alternately, we could auction it off for revenue.

>>18448224
Make sure said animals aren't capable of leaving said islands. Be it with land mines or automated turrets.

>>18448224
It would also be a good place to have our guard regiments train so their more familiar with harsh conditions, and will be better prepared for some of the shitholes they get shipped to.

I think the space marine chapter might be interested in those islands. Might as well ask them for suggestions. God-emperor knows they've dealt with more beasties than anyone else.

>>18448264
Yeah, that's what I meant, like cold coditions for iceworlds and the like.

>>18448326
We could share the islands with them, not only could we take turns, and I'm sure the islands are big enough for both unless they're tiny, but having joint excercises would not only help the PDF learn how to fight with the Astartes better and vice versa, and maybe boost relations with them and "ordinary humans".

>>18448254
Have the only enterance to the islands be from air, heavily guarded, and with very few landing zones. Make the zones acessible only to military and support personnel.

If we want to do a naval version, we could have an artifical lake created with deathworld seacreatures, somewhere freakishly remote, under military prescence.

Ohshitohshot, we gotta tap into those ogryns, not only would they help increase our military, we could probably use them partially for tithes.

When we get money we should start an outreach program or some shit, help them with housing, food and supplies in exchange for military service, our goal should be to supply virtually all of their needs, too free them up for training, wargames and making more Ogryns

You have 27 Currency in your "Spending Money" account. You have 102 in your main Treasury, but they are needed to pay for your various projects, plus over half put away to pay the back Tithe. Note that you can put a project on hiatus to divert money for a major purchase, and that Malector will be staying a while while his Armsmen train up your PDF (And in turn are trained up by the Astartes and Special Ops) so you can wait and buy stuff after taxes have been collected next.

Wares for sale:

230 Virus Bombs (Note that "Virus Bomb" does not equal Life Eater Virus. These are your average, garden-variety Imperial Bio-Weapons), old and have lost a lot of their potency, many have become completely inert. However, they are still very lethal. If you can hire a Magos Genetor or Bioligis then he could likely return potency to the weapons and revive a few of the dead ones (They make good decoys anyway). (40 C)


Xenos Artifact: a strange helmet, looks like leather but has a metallic texture. Has what looks like a star-map and a set of coordinates carved into it. (3 C)

Mixed Herb seeds: Various rare edible and medicinal herbs, many originating on Ancient Terra. (8 C)


A collection of ancient Tomes, both Imperial and non-Imperial. A few fragments from the Dark Age of Technology are present as well. (9 C)


The blueprints for manufacturing Ragnarok tanks (A knock-off of the Leman Russ, designed during the Krieg Civil War to be as simple as possible to construct while remaining effective as armored vehicles. (10 C)


Centauran Wheat: A hardy sub-species of wheat. Can grow in hostile environments, thrives in any weather, and is both more nutritious than the varieties of Terran wheat commonly used in the Imperium, but makes superior tasting bread. (20 C)


One Baneblade: Standard Mars-Pattern Baneblade, Malector found it on a voyage, but has to let it go considering that his Warrant specifically limits him to owning one at a time, and the Inquisition is already watching him under a neutron microscope for any excuse to render him down into a Servitor. (70 C)

Eight particularly vicious and high-quality Combat Servitors, heavily armored and armed with a variety of nasty close-combat and ranged weapons. (4)

One Shadowsword tank. Malector plans on running away from any battles that involves fighting enemy titans as fast as possible. (50 C)

One Archaneotech Plasma Pistol. (10 C)

One Rhino APC. (5 C)

One Ring-mounted Digi-Weapon (Laser). (25 C)

One Scaly Gladiator (Slave) (Necromunda-native Abhuman) absolutely loyal to its master and a vicious fighter. Pretty damn smart to boot. (10 C)

One Mutant Vixen (Slave). Flying furry warrior with Psyker abilities and a Billion-Colored sword (It's the Warp, don't ask). Is similarly loyal, but will go on hour-long speeches about how everyone hates her because they don't understand what a super-special snowflake she is if given the slightest opportunity. Incredibly, indescribably annoying but handy in a close-quarters fight if you can handle the near-constant cries of "Fursecution!". (20 C)

A renegade Fire-Warrior clad in a Crisis suit. Looking for a new employer that hates the Tau Empire as much as he does (Mercenary). (10 C up front, plus a regular salary and a position on your staff.)

>>18448599
>mfw vixen

I say we go with the crops.

>>18448599
>Mutant Vixen

And here we find, the goofy side kick!

Regardless I vote for the blueprints, the tomes, and the wheat. Maaaaybe the lizardman gladiator.

>>18448624
Wait wait, scratch that, not enough money. Let's get the wheat.

>>18448590
SO MUCH STUFF.

The wheat I'm interested in, will allow for a much larger population base. Hive world anyone?

I don't want to put anything else on hold right now. We'll buy shit next time he comes around.

>>18448580
bio-weapons can backfire spectacularly. The Xenos artifact is cheaper.
See if anyone will volunteer to try it on. Otherwise, trade it to the AdMech.

Let's not bring on any xenos or abhumans. The Tau would probably get lynched real quick.

>>18448590
I say the goods in order of priority are

Wheat/Seeds (Large space for agriculture means we can grow a shitton of it, surplus food can be sold for cash or used for tithe, seeds can be used for pharmacuticals, when we tech/industrialize, the extra food will help when more people move to the cities.)

Tomes (Knowledge is power)

Tanks Blueprints (Ability to make tanks more important than having a single one, Astartes should protect us until we've got enough vehicles running)

Everything else: Maybe when we have more money.

TL;DR Buy wheat and Seeds for now, ask for tomes and blueprints on hold.

(priority)
(2) Mixed Herb seeds
(1) Centauran Wheat
(3) Blueprints for Ragnarok tanks

These are what I want, i'm thinking of selling bonds to pay for them and then licensing the wheat to farmers to help pay back, also ask the famlies about getting some quick cash for giving them a copy of the chimera and tank blueprints.

One personal Valkyrie Gunship. Gilded and decorated, very high-quality. (10 C)

One Cyberian Granite (Significantly harder than steel) statue of Malcador the Sigillite.

A collection of Eldar Soulstones ( 75 out of 104 Occupied). (30 C)

Sarian Bell Flowers. Rare flowers that have miraculous healing properties. (11 C)

Which do you purchase? Remember that he will still be here when you gain more funds.

>>18448660
Oh yes.

>>18448673
>>18448672
And to sell it we could start a state gardin which could be incorporated into the tourest route.

The wheat is big, game changing big. Entire agri worlds can be built on it.

Unfortunately, we really can't buy much else if we get the wheat.

>>18448679
The flowers, they would work even better than the flowers.
We need to take out a lone to do every thing we want.

(now that I think about it lets not buy the tank blueprints as soon enough we could get the blueprints to the real russ not a knock off)

>>18448679
Tell him to hang onto the soulstones. Those will be an important bargaining chip with the local Elfdar.

>>18448679
>Super-Flowers

FUUUUU

Okay, Buy the Wheat and Mystery seeds now, ask for tomes, tank blueprint and flowers, and maybe helmet for on hold.

We'll only be out 1c on our spending money account, that shouldn't hurt too bad.

Those flowers would be great for tourism AND we could sell the medicine.

Anything that's not agriculture related can safely be put off for later, as our population seems rather like for industry (3b on a planet larger than earth?) Since we have so much free space, we can go all Harvest Moon up in this bitch

The tank blue prints, the wheat, and the servitors cause that might be the one thing that can truly protect us from assassins and genestealers out for revenge

We could buy the soulstones, but if we approached the Eldar with them we'd better be meaning to hand them over for free as a gesture of goodwill.

Anything else would be a horrible insult and would bring down all kinds of nasty pain.

How much do you think the Eldar will pay to get their soulstones back?

Got to be careful in negociations. Not-killing xenos on sight is considered heresy and the Eldar might just steal the soulstones.

>>18448693
>>18448660

Trading in Xenos slaves is not officially Heresy. It may be frowned upon by certain agencies, but no one will call in the Officio Assassinorum over it. The Tau Mercenary...less so. But remember, ity's the Tau Empire that the population hates, not the Tau themselves. Gue'vesa, Kroot, and even the occasional Fire Warrior, turncloaks all fought on their side during the 12 Years War. A renegade that decided that the Greater Good was for faggots would probably be well received.

>>18448735
I forgot to mention, Grow the mystery seeds in seperate, isolated greenhouses, preferably on one of those isolated islands, that way if any of the seeds are dangerous, they can't spread.

Equip each greenhouse with flamers, if some plants try to go catachan, torch the entire thing, better to lose 1 greenhouse than have a deathworld.

Later we should grow the seeds in the isolated greenhouses with conventional crops and the new wheat to see if they advesely affect them.

Only plant seeds that aren't harmfull and don't overwhelm the ecosystem outside of the greenhouses, after they've been tested throughly.

>>18448769
>>18448774
Soulstones right now is a bad idea right now, our military is kinda shit atm, we should only attempt this when our military and internal security are top-knotch.

We have no gaurentee the eldar won't try to destroy this planet just to get them for free, after all.

>>18448774

Considering the relationship between the Eldar and the population, trying to sell it to them instead of handing them over would go down badly among the Eldar and your own people, and would likely launch the Resistance into full on "Astartes or no Astartes, this shit WILL NOT STAND" mode.

>>18448813
Which is why if we EVER acquire soulstones, we turn them over freely to the nearest craftworld representative.

We only want positive relations with the super-advanced psychic xenos. No, don't tell the inquisitor.

I think we should focus on building up our agriculture and tourism for funds before focusing on industry at the moment, as they seem to need the least amount of work to get started. Tourism can be split between Gambling/Urban shit like meuseums, and Eco-tourism, like recreational fishing and the like, Eco-tourism should take very little infastructure to set up, as the attraction is the natural environs, while we use the surplus artwork for our urban works.

Since the planet is larger than terra and less than 1/2 current earth's population, we should have vast untouched land for agriculture/tourism, which would benifit us immediately as opposed to heavy industry, which is more useful when we have a higher population, and more developed infastructure/technology.

We should use the funds we earn from Agriculture/Tourism to fund the development for infastructure/defence/industry.

I'll come check to see if this quest is active later, but I'm off to bed, if someone could archive it now, I'd appreciate it.

>>18448837
If we turn them onver freely we wait until we've got spare cash then, right now we should be focused on getting our economy running.

We can count on the Eldar, being Eldar, will probably know about the soulstones. Hiding this from them will look like a betrayal.

Offer to broker a deal but aim to break even at the very least. We can't afford to do anythign less.

>>18448224
>>18448326
>>18448462

You mention the islands to Raltus, who agrees to begin training both PDF and Marines there, with plenty of Joint-Ops exercises.

>>18448149

Artifacts, relics, and artwork almost entirely imported or built on-site by hired artisans from off-planet. All on taxpayer money of course.

>>18448510

Ogryns were traditionally part of both the PDF and part of the Guard Tithes before the Tau occupation. Re-instating this would be a very popular move.

>>18448673

Response is positive. By selling "Shares" of the agricultural purchases to farmers you've effectively distributed the seeds across the planet to capable growers while paying virtually nothing for them. (Wheat, seeds, and Bell Flowers purchased and distributed at a cost to you of 1 C)

Additionally, the seeds came with a detailed list of of their names and uses. None are carnivorous or poisonous. (Although a few can get you high) but there are a few items that fit that description from an expedition to a Death World a few years back...

Choices now that Agri products were bought virtually for free? Remember you have 27 C available for purchases RIGHT NOW.

>>18448941
>plants are bought cheap
Fantastic

and we should have 26C left to play with.

>>18448941
Death world seeds get grown in an isolated greenhouse that has a flamer purge function.

Find out what they are, if they're bad, kill them.

>>18448980
Lets get the tank prints and the Tomes and save the rest.

>>18448980
>>18448673

Make that 26, my bad.

The industrial Families have responded that, in exchange for licensing, they will cover 5 C of the purchase.

Davos and his lieutenants have pooled their spare cash to buy the Soulstones for their Eldar friends, but Malector is demanding an extra 15 C for it no longer being "Friend Prices". A lot of Spec Ops left that meeting pissed off.

>>18448941
By all means, reinstate away.

>>18448993

Malector says he'll go find them, but it may take a while for him to dig up, as they're buried somewhere in the back of his Explorators Biological sample archives and he forgot they existed.

(I hate to say this, but I'll have to step out for a while AGAIN. I promise you I will be back as soon as I can and no later than another hour. I the meantime, try to come to a consensus on your choices.)

>>18448941
>few items that fit that description from an expedition to a Death World a few years back..

Restrict and Quarantine those items.

Better safe then sorry. Dont need those things getting out and then having to burn off wide areas of land to make sure those things dont spread.

>>18449047
15C for the loyalty of the special forces.
Fair trade?

>>18449047
I kind of want to help them, but what does every one else say?

>>18448778
The Imperium makes a lot of use of xeno mercenaries , blood axes and even kroots. It is not heresy, especially since the mercenary is such a good propaganda against the greater good.

"Even their own people realize it is wrong!"


with the rest we should buy the Firewarrior and either the occupied soulstounes , or the ancient tomes to start a academy and buy all stones ASAP


also we should start towards some orbital infrastructure slowly, so we can build that space mall with rouge trader proxies.

>>18449047
We buy those soulstones and give them back to the eldar (though Davos) and we will be their best friends, and the Eldar will like us as well.

Heh, worth it.

Buy the stones.

we dont have enough to buy them all, and id hate for the price to spike if we want particular stones.

It seems that we are agreed on buying the stones so lets ask what else we should get?
(if we don't have to spot the 15)
-Lets get the tomes (and then search them for chaos taint be fore researching them)
-The tank blueprints
-And save the rest

(if we do then)
-Lets get the tomes (and then search them for chaos taint be fore researching them)

Yea/Nay/Change

Let's see if he'll take a piece of our art-investment as trade for the stones.

>find trapped Eldar souls
>return them to Eldar at own expense
>reasonablegovernor.jpg
>get stabbed by callidus for consorting with xenos

>>18449123

and even trai SM and the PDF in anti tau tactics and stratagems

rolled 3, 8, 2, 9, 8, 8, 2, 8, 6, 2, 10, 7 = 73

Buy the tank design, iirc russes weredesignd as tractors so distributing them across the population will help defend us from outside attack and give people high quality tractors

>>18449397
This is going to make law enforcement a bit tricky.

Hmmm
I like the Necromundan mutant. That place pumps out quality fighters, and with this mutants conditioning, it was probably trained by the Hive's martially inclinded nobility.
We get the blueprints for the tanks as well
And with the remaining 6 to spare we could pick up the combat servitors, or that artifact which im betting has some crazy navigator stuff.

"An extra [15c]? I thought you usually Overcharged me because i was your friend, dont you mean it costs them less in this case?" Ingauge the Eye, pout if need be.

I think getting either of the mutants would be a foolish waste of money. One slave isnt going to noticeably improve our
millitary, but a tank schematic and seeds both bring significant benifits to us.
If we get the soulstones and give them to the eldar, maybe we can ask the eldar what that xeno hat does, or what benifits we can get from the other risky purchases.

>>18449603
Its more that it's loyal to its master.
I dunno, i got the Charron from Fallout 3 feel from it, though i'd like to know more of its capabilities.

>>18449522
>>18449603
>>18449646
Are we talking about the furry? If so I say we shouldn't buy her too much for too little reward, also the people like us (some what) right now, so we don't have to worry about plotting and loyalty. (so says Machiavelli)

>>18449646
While i do agree it would be nice to have, we have a limited budget and have to think about what's best for this world, not ourselves
The populance is quite willing to rebel if we start acting like the last guy, and we have a chapter of astartes who would respect us significantly more if we put the people before ourselves.
I think that for even one money unit we could have a specops squad guard us, and would be at least as effective as a single mutant at protecting us.

(I suspect some of those possible purchases are deliberately useless, like the ring weapon and gold plated helicopter. Choosing badly on what to buy could lower the opinions other characters have of us, while choosing wisely may raise it. Just look what happened to the last govenor who put himself before the good of the world.)

>>18449715
I've been assuming that by slave guard we're talking about the gladiator:
One Scaly Gladiator (Slave) (Necromunda-native Abhuman) absolutely loyal to its master and a vicious fighter. Pretty damn smart to boot. (10 C)

>>18449740
Ah, that seems like a more reasonable investment. Still it feels waist full.

>>18449102

The Death World seeds are a separate item from the seeds you just purchased.

>>18449123
>>18449206
>>18449397
>>18449522
>>18449603

"Yes my dear, but since they aren't my friends I over-charge them even more."

"But since you're going to be such a sourpuss over this, I'll lower it to an extra 5. That should be well within your friends budget, don't you think?"

>Davos and his friends can pay this, but they won't like the RT. Try to haggle him down more?

Consensus seems to be on Tomes, Helmet, and tank plans for 22 C, but considering Scaly Bodyguard?

Anyone still alive?

If not, I'll keep this tab open and refresh regularly for a few hours, give you guys a chance to finish fapping and check up on this thread again.

I'm for getting the seeds, blueprints, and books

I'm against getting the gladiator, because it seems wasteful to buy it.

Don't the eldar attack people who posess soulstones to get them back?

>>18450109

Seeds were already purchased almost entirely by farmers through a "Bonds" program. If you like, Malector can bring him out for you and demonstrate his capabilities.

>>18450068
Yeah, lets try to haggle a bit more, "Oh, come now, my dear friend! I have emptied my coffers into yours and now some of my new compatriots are looking to do the same. Cut them a deal now, and future dealings might be sweeter for all involved!

>>18450068

They dont like the RT, but they should give him some consideration. after all they are both our friends.. or something.

and we did get the price lower already.

No more haggle, one discount is quite enough.

>>18450134

He sighs. "Five then. You wound me, Elyssa"

Soulstones purchased by Davos and co. They don't particularly like Malector, but they don't actively dislike him either.

>>18450123

Sorry fell asleep and just caught back up.
My only thing is avoid the soul stones like the plague. Other than that I say we get the ball rolling. The plants were a great addition to our cause.

>>18450150
NO ! NO HAGGLE !

>>18450148 fag here.


let us have some deliberation!

>>18450134
see this:
>>18450150

happy now fuckface?

Alienating a RT friend. great job.

>>18450150

Almost forgot, you lose a few Rep points with the RT. He's a quick man to forgive as long as you don't cheat him in a business deal, so he'll probably take his revenge by jacking up all the prices 1 C on his next visit and forget about it.

>>18450171
-.-

You did respond awfully quick to the haggling option.

Man, I was about to suggest paying the extra 15 anyways.
If you can ever buy loyalty, do it. It's entirely worth it to know the people standing behind you actually want to be there.

>>18450179
>>18450205

By wounding Malectors pride, you've gained the resources to affirm your planets friendly relationship with the nearby Eldar and have helped repair some of the massive amount of diplomatic damage this strategy caused (From the first thread, right before meeting the Resistance leaders for the first time):

>I suggest that we appear detatched and aloof at first. Have minions present a strong demeanor. State that this is an imperial planet, and appear ready to come down on them like the fist of god. Be all gung ho and blood thirsty. Then, once the militia are all red faced and almost ready to spill blood, let us step in and actually speak as govenor rather than let minions do the talking. Be polite. Be sympathetic. Explain that your minions were presenting the official imperial creed, but that you, being a realist the magnanimous soul that you are, are willing to compromise from the official hard-line. Let them realize how GOOD they have had it till now, and that it could be SO much worse than you are making it for them.

>stick. THEN carrot.

End quote.

While we're on the subject, now that the crisis is at an end the Resistance have pulled out of the city, and all but a few leaders and their bodyguard left behind to talk with you have vanished back into presumably well-armed and wary anonymity. You still need to finish negotiating with these people sooner or later.

Confirm Books, helmet, Tank plans, or ask RT for demo of Scalies abilities first?

>>18450270

Confirm, body guard is superfluous

>>18450289
may not be...

Next turn however i want the crisis suit, and the Shas'whatever.

>>18450289

Done.

Malector walks away with his pride singed, the Resistance walk away with an increase to their grudging respect of you, and you have a weird hat to gawk at and ancient tomes to decipher.

>Timeskip to Munitorum rep arrival?

Civilian engineers occupying mechanicum jobs? Is it just me or does it look like we'll end up like adrantis if we're left alone long enough?

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Adrantis_Five#.T27rsNWWw8Y

Do you want to Timeskip to the arrival of the Munitorum representative or do something else first?

>>18450332
Wait!
Stop Malector and apologize.
"Look, I'm sorry about being so forceful back there. I really need these peoples' respect and if a few little rocks help get that, it's worth it. Plus, if they overthrow me, you'll lose a customer... and a friend.
"Tell you what. I'll let you cheat me a little next time. Are we okay?" Smile at him.
Otherwise, yeah, skip ahead.

I'm not really following the quest, but here's a suggestion:

Recruit from loyal and educated men, perhaps even Adepts, to make an institution of Political Officers within the PDF. Like the Imperial Comissars, but less shooting their own men (or shooting in general), more inspiring speeches and education. They shouldn't need extensive martial training, as their chief assets would be charisma, courage and loyalty. They would be given extrajudicial powers on the battlefield, like the Comissars, but we should instruct them to prefer bonding with the troops, preaching patriotism and the Imperial creed and dealing with psychological concerns (such as preventing conflict and fostering teamwork between recruits) over coercion and punishment.

If we can get a loyal and motivated backbone for our forces that would be well-liked by the average trooper, this could improve morale a lot without a great cost; literally all we'd need to do is select candidates carefully and pay them well.

another suggestion: start a university program with those ancient tomes as study material, after we screened and combed through them.

We have chimera and tank blueprints. we need some engineers and other learned men and women, and since there are civilian lay engineers or mechanics, higher learning and mass education of more on various subjects, to get a big pool of educated people to use future blueprints and perhaps even implement something original

>>18450367
Nah. I think it will end up more like a BT succession wars in the sector, but all dynasties are LOYAL imperial servants. the others are not!

I call dibs on a mix of Steiner and Liao.

>>18450376

He grins and pats you on the shoulder:

"No offense taken my lady, if you keep plotting like this you might be proper Rogue Trader material yet!"

>>18450395

This sounds like a good plan to you, and to the aids and lieutenants you mention it to, but all agree that it might be a good idea to lighten up on the Imperial Creed, considering the planets current attitude towards the Ecclessiarchy.

>>18450395
instead of imperial creed may i suggest loyalty to the proper authorities as long as they are honourable.

This gives us a lot of manoeuvring room. for one it is in accordance with the imperium, since it preaches loyalty to the ones in charge, then sector lord and then the high lords, does not antagonize the Iron Dragons sice they have the Promethean cult, and allows us to defy or misinterpret orders of the superiors should they act 'dishonourably'

>>18450424
Yeah, I wanted to mention that we should go lightly on it, but still pay some lip service so that it'd look better to outsiders. Like ending various official messages and proclamations with "Long live Daysimir! Long live the Emperor!", or whatever. But yeah, patriotism and loyalty to the community should be the focus of the propaganda.

>>18450462
>>18450475
indeed , so we are in accordance. Loyalty to proper authorities gives us the most direct power and flexibility, while at the same time not annoying any faction.

iron dragons can recruit and induct people in the Promethean cult and emphasize loyalty to authority,
Adepta sorroritas can get recruits and emphasi even more on Emperor Loyalty and go fanatic in imperial cult indution.

and the higher authority are , complimented with more loyalty to them and the imperium and a odd way of lip service the the imperial cult.

>>18450494
so we are going to be house Kurita?

>>18450462
Good idea, let's just borrow from the Mandate of Heaven (look it up), but, again, maybe it could be called the Emperor's Plan, or the Divine Plan or something, to put a politically correct spin on the old concept of "proper way to run a realm". In fact, a lot of things from the Confucian political philosophy (such as attaching prestige and ceremonial importance to official exams and ranks) could be very useful for our administration if refluffed.

Now that someone talks about successor Houses, i thought about trying to track down all our cousins, nephews, nieces, uncles, aunts, etc.
And see where they are and what positions they hold.
Perhaps extend a bit of aid here, a invitation to visit Daysimir , etc.

jsut get some connections with as many von Braun's or people of the von Braun bloodline (there may be many more family names, we are more interested in relatives and family. the extended family.)

We may eventually get them pulled together into a local faction. I think most are likely captains or officers. but some may be in other odd positions.

who knows perhaps we can become something like a noble loyal to the imperium successor state.

Or even spread the honourable loyalty cult

>>18450422

You have scribes start combing through the Tomes looking for heretical (Even for this planet) material and Chaos taint. You also have your staff start laying plans for Planetary Improvement: University (30 C) and PI: No Techpriests allowed (Trains more Engineers for more complex tasks, further decreasing the need for Techpriests on your planet) (40 C, 25 if University is already built).

The Departmento Munitorum is a practical organization, and some leeway is granted for late and partially paid Tithes. However, all debts must be paid in the Imperium, whether in men, goods, money, or blood. The battalion of Stormtroopers in carapace armor and bearing Bolter Rifles standing guard around Departmento Representative Arkhan Mirak is proof of the Imperiums dedication to this philosophy.

Report:

Taxes collected: +25 Currency to Treasury. Trading Fleet profits collected: +15 C. Total of 40 C in Main Treasury, 63 in savings to pay monetary Tithe.

Centauran wheat has replaced all previous varieties as both a staple and long-term storage food.

The Herbs you purchased have become popular garden plants planet-wide.

Sarian Bell Flowers have become a great source of profit for wealthy business ventures specializing in rare plants, they grow well in the native soil, although they require climate-controlled greenhouses to thrive, and already they are becoming a profitable export.

Infrastructure Repair is complete.

Orbital Defense Repair is 70% complete (Sped up thanks to Iron Dragons Techmarines)

Orbital Docking station is repaired and functional, an increase in inter-planetary trade has already been noticed

(CONT)

>>18450596
awesome.

we should build the university as soon as we have the funds for it and hire the Tau firewarrior. then have him on retainer for life.

We could slowly start to RE Crisis suits systems and Dreadnought systems, and manufacture and sell them to the iron dragons.

perhaps even make a imperial response to the Crisis suit and export it, pr at least use it internally. I am certain such a imperial Crisis suit squad would be better against Chaos Space marines , various Tyranid nasties and other heavy beasts that spell murder for flak troops...

>>18450507
As long as I'm thinking along these lines, I'd better mention the worst flaw of Confucian political thinking in my eyes, which almost all authoritarian systems share (democracy can be equally bad, but usually it's more reliable). I'm talking about succession to the various high offices, and to the ruler's title itself.

A technocratic hierarchy, with exams, bureaucratic tradition and all that, can fill the more technical posts well, but the most important offices, like those of ministers and the ruler, are political in nature, meaning that even an efficient specialist holding them can still be seen as "evil" if he implements disliked policies. The doctrine of the "Mandate of Heaven" allows displacing a corrupt or incompetent official, but if he's doing something not forbidden by it, yet widely hated, like sending conscripts to die in a far-off war instead of paying a tithe, it necessitates either rule through coercion or an "unlawful" uprising, and the doctrine is discredited. Look at modern China: people might be hesitant e.g. to speak out against censorship, but they are understanding that the government actively disregards their wishes, and they'll disrespect it in turn, so preaching "harmony" to them will fall on deaf ears and, in the absense of other legitimizing mechanisms, stability might decline.

Therefore, we'd better take into account how vulnerable the doctrine of obeying a "virtuous" or "proper" authority can be.

>>18450640
so just loyalty to the imperium. a vague and unspecified imperium that encompasses al but does not specify anyone.

You are now producing enough Chimeras to outfit both the 350,000 strong Regiment that is currently awaiting deployment, but your enlarged PDF, which numbers 8 million soldiers and is still steadily growing. Your PDF is mechanized, but lacks both advanced heavy weapons and heavy armor support, replacing Leman Russ tanks and Heavy Bolters with the less effective Heavy Stubbers and locally manufactured Ragnarok tanks, especially considering that most of the old hardware is being shipped out with your Regiment..

The Ragnaroks themselves have become a very popular item, Davos and his men have pooled their resources to purchase enough to supply the new Planetary Militia with armored support. The Militia consisting of every adult on the planet between the ages of 18-30 Terran years of age, equipped with lasguns and Flak Armor, and trained to the same standard as modern U.S. Marine Marksmen plus Guerrilla Warfare and specific anti-Tau training, making them better trained than most IG Regiments. The stated mission of the Militia is to defend your planet from foreign *and domestic* threats. Many of your advisers say that this is simply Davos arming himself against both the threat of another Tau incursion and you enlisting the help of the Iron Dragons to crush them.

The bulk of the Iron Dragons forces have left the system to engage particularly troublesome pirates, Ork and Chaos raiders, and remaining Genestealer infestations elsewhere in the Sector. So far all reports have been of success and considerably safer trading routes.
(CONT)

>>18450640
(Of course, the traditional Imperial theocracy is a solution, as people who submit to it accept (for irrational reasons) that the authorities can do almost anything to them and are only responsible before the Emperor, but it requires a lot of brainwashing to leave the people content with such a lot - and when it breaks down, it breaks down hard, with no ways to reduce pressure but killing people off)

>>18450659
Okay, but if we state just that, we're tacitly allowing for the fact that things like conspiring with some Imperial outside power to make you name a popular successor over a disliked one are not immoral or "heretical"; after all, the well-being and productivity of a world are more important to the Imperium than the individual who rules it.

>>18450665

The wariness both the Resistance and the population at large regarded the Iron Dragons with has largely dissipated, as most Brothers not on active combat duty have settled on the planet and begun leading normal lives among its Citizens, many with families. One esteemed Brother-Sargent now owns a Pizza Delivery business in one of your capitols districts. Although still unsure of them, the population has begun to warm up to the Superhuman Warriors in their midst to a surprising degree.

The remaining Iron Dragon forces on your planet have congregated at their chosen site for their new Fortress-Monastery. An old settlement and a relic of the first Human colonists during the Dark Age of Technology, the site consists of a factory and a few living quarters in sheltered in the skull of a massive prehistoric Saurian beast. The settlement itself was apparently crude and quickly thrown together, being no more technologically advanced than the rest of your planet, with most machinery rusted beyond all possibility to repair by time and icy winds, but the combination of an ancient forge in the mouth of an even more ancient Drake on the side of a mineral-rich and somewhat volcanically active mountain was taken as a sign by the Dragons. The site is also highly defensible, and was a sort of De-centralized Resistance stronghold during the 12 Years war.
(CONT)

>>18450676
>>18450706
All things have advantages and disadvantages.
The current situation is strongly in dislike against brainwashing and other things that devalue the person

Lets go with this:

>>18450494

It enforces their beliefs and bends them a bit, while making them technically model imperial citizens. for a certain degree of variation in the 'model' definition.

Also, while it may pose some legitimacy risks, its not like thos would go away without it.

look at Davos militia with the whole enemies foreign and domestic.

It is already there, and with the things we did, we are beginning to be more and more liked. the economic renaissance sure ought to count for something.


after we implement that philosophy further changes and difference between laymen and nobles and other social engineering could be implemented.

Remember social engineering is a very slow and multiphase process.

>>18450712

Along with the Departmento rep/Tax collector and his escort has come the hordes of Techpriests and Servitors and massive resources needed to construct a truly impregnable Fortress-Monastery, including a powerful Lance battery and Void Shields (The sector Governor was all too eager to grant such an esteemed Astartes Chapter an immovable seat in such a troubled region of space). The Departmento has also brought the war machines and equipment to re-arm your expanded PDF to Guard standards.

The Chapter Bastions in your cities have been completed, serving as a home for Astartes and their families who have yet to find their feet on this new world.

Most of the defunct Orbital Defense Platforms have been towed back into orbit to await later repair.

You have been unable to discover the purpose of the Xenos Helm beyond its obvious function and the starmap scratched into its surface.
(CONT)

>>18450761
Still the fack that we dont have sisters is somewhat disheartening. i want the sisters.

having them here gives us a lot of legitimacy , if we can sway them to our imperial loyalty thing...

>>18450769
We'll have to wait and see. They'll hopefully be a bit more friendly after their battle against the orks.

>>18450769
Well, lets have the sisters iven a small outpost monastery. nothing big, just a stopover and supply post with infrastructure to hold and tend to sisters and faithful.

it would give us cultural architecture, another apothecary, and some political connections (the famulous order. we could contact them through the outpost and help the RT a bit..)

heck with all the reconstruction and stuff, they could even retire or retreat here for the old days or for a vacation.

>>18450768
Lets have massive amounts of civil engineers and workers help out. be really accommodating and very bendy to get to help them and work with them side by side.

This is a golden opportunity to learn from them on issues such as planetary and space infrastructure and other things they will do.

the practices then can be disseminated to the future university and slimmed and streamlined.

The Guard and PDF, although somewhat lacking in equipment, have been trained by three of the most expert fighting forces in the Galaxy, and have become Warriors truly worthy of bearing the banner of the Emperor.

Trained to near-Stormtrooper levels by the Iron Dragons, and taught in the ways of sneak-and-strike and countering Tau tactics by the veteran Resistance fighters, all but the most competent RT Armsmen ceased being teachers and became students wearing different uniforms about 1/4th of the way through the training program. Indoctrinated in the ideals of determination, self-reliance, and victory at all but the greatest costs taught in the Promethean Creed, these soldiers rival even the famed Krieg Regiments in bloody-minded determination and sheer lack of fear. In the opinion of many Iron Dragons and IG vets, they may be one of the most deadly human armies in the Imperium.

>>18450800
Now we only need local cyberware to give them personal Night and Infra red vision, radio, and other tiny bits that tend to be useful.

And some guns. hmh. crisis suit tech power armour, if the guy that wants university and the fire warrior gets his wish, and Sororitas power armour training for unaugmented infantry.

heh. we could start exporting mercenaries, bodyguards and bounty hunters for timed contracts. and have retired militia, iron dragon wash outs and retired PDFs benefit from the same service for a fee, but with the earnings theirs.


This would give us experience on a variety of even more battlefields, some bit of money and contacts , and more income for the planets with renting it to other Daysimir fighting units like militia, retired PDF etc. by dint of them coming back home with the money.

>>18450791

It is done.

>>18450800

(CONT)

The Promethean Faith is, if you will excuse the pun, catching like wildfire among the PDF and Guard, and is spreading through the rest of the planet as a welcome legitimate alternative to the Imperial Cult. Many Citizens, previously pious but unable to reconcile the obvious falsehoods in the standard Imperial word on Xenos and Abhumans with their faith have found solace in this religion. Extolling the virtues of Independence, self-reliance, and trial by fire (Something many veterans of the 12 Years War can relate to) along with a rich background of ancient Nocturnian heroes and monsters against the Emperor, who is treated as simply a great hero and leader of men, a mighty scholar and warrior with near infinite compassion and wisdom who may grant the odd prayer through sheer Psychic might, and Vulkan, revered as a Demigod in the flesh who taught that even the Imperiums mightiest warriors learned best by living and working alongside those they protected, learning the lessons of determination in the face of adversity and humility fro those that live in such a manner every day, s that these lessons may be called upon when the Warriors need was most dire.
(CONT)

Can we contact our RT friend and see if he can't pick up some armour blue prints on his travels?

>>18450838
Addendum, once we get some serious gear, to minimize casualties.

Those flowers have an amazing potential for Pharmecudical uses, let's get to work trying to develop medicine from them, if we can get our hands on an efficient healing drug, we can not only sell it, but also use it to pay for guard tithes.

We should also use the Flowers along with the mixed plant seeds and domestic flora to start some kind of royal garden in the capital, which we can use to attract tourists.

>Buying the soulstones
This can turn out either good or bad, I would've liked to wait until later before buying them, right now they make me feel like pic related.

>>18450841
I know the Astartes can get away with it (barely), but will the Inquisition be ok with Imperial citizens subscribing to this? Obviously the Ecclesiarchy will be even more pissed off.

>>18450856

We dont need only armour but guns too.

heh. i like the crisis response idea. we get a retainer, and have it studied and maintained by the scholars at the academy.
Win win for them and the firewarrior.

they can then create a analogue and use and sell them to iron dragons as cheap something between terminator and dreadnought stopgap.

I forgot what they dont have but being able to wield large numbers of speedy fire support options cant hurt.

>>18450870
If its astartes approved, then their friends can get away with it too. and a lot of religions are in the imperium. not all are sanctioned but some are. The prothean cult is one of them. the Machine Cult is also one, and not only Mechanicus are the ones to it.

lets not forget all the fucked up imerial cult variations, and various other non forbidden or illegal cults.

>>18450870
>>18450841
OP said the local ecclesiarchy is a lot more reasonable in this sector than in the imperium on average.

What is their official stance on the Promethian Faith when it comes to normal citizens?

>>18450841

The religion has even taken root among the Tech-Adepts of Daysimir. An altered form of the Promethean Faith that includes the Omnissiah as a vague power to be revered, along with a few more pragmatic elements of the Machine Cult, originally developed by the Techmarines of the Iron Dragons to reconcile their training on Mars with the Promethean Creed, it has begun to spread among the Techpriests and Engineers of your world.

There is still no word from the Shield of the Codex, which is presumably still en route to “Clear up this matter”. No further contact has been made since that cryptic message.

The Sisters have reported success on their mission, and say they will soon be there to take advantage of your offered hospitality to rest and repair their equipment.
________________________________________________

You stride forward on the landing platform, with Davos and his bodyguards, Raltus and his commanders and honor Guard, and a PDF attachment facing down the grizzled Stormtroopers at the other end of the walkway.

'A delight to finally meet you Elyssa, but before we continue with pleasantries I will require a full list of repairs made to this planets infrastructure"

He smiles thinly: "That is, of course, assuming that you did in fact repair the infrastructure of this planet?"

>Action?

>>18450870
Stating that the emperor is not a devine being to be worshipped could hurt us, we should focus on how the Emperor is great blahblahblah and kind of brush over the less palpatible facets of Imperial Faith.

Also we need to construct more pious artwork for the capital, this'll help show our devotion to the emperor, and help draw in tourists, we should focus the artwork on the Emperor himself, as well as a few saints without controversional issues, that people both here and offworld would admire.

>>18450887
Do ask he asks. Nobody fucks with the Munitorum/Administratum.

>>18450887
I suggest we either are fully honest,

or sub-estimate the reports, (say, 20% lower or so) and cite the genestealer infestation needing a lot more attention and resources for prevention and containment.

>>18450893
so the loyalty philosophy to be seeped in the local Promethean cult and have the dissperging of the emperors godhood glossed over.

The emperor is. weather a god or a great man is beside the point. Its the emperor. EMPEROR!

>>18450887
Tell him that reparing the infastructure was one of the first things we did, along with getting the local economy running, and building up our armed forces.

Give him a report about our military forces, sell the fact our PDF have superior training, and also mention the fact we have vechicle production underway, but we are curretly lacking in armour ATM.

Mention that our Agriculture is booming, and offer part of the tithe be paid in wheat, along with troops and vehicles.

Take him on a tour of a military base and show him the worth of our men.

>whether
damned autocorrect.

>>18450882

I don't recall saying it was more reasonable, I just said it was very weak in this sector and unable to influence most of the planets beyond the Capitol system to any lasting degree.

You're unsure of what the official Imperial view is on the Promethean Faith, but you know the Imperium tolerated it in the Salamanders and Iron Dragons Chapters, and presumably in the Salamanders other successors. On the other hand, the Iron Dragons were banned from a Shrine World in the middle of the celebration thrown in honor of the recruiting trials being held there on the grounds that they followed the Promethean Creed instead of the Imperial Cult. It may just depend on what authority figure you're talking to.

>>18450914
Quite frankly it doesn't matter wether he's a god or not, the Imperium wouldn't exist without him and each and every Imperial citizen owe our lives to him.

So yeah, just play up the Big E and ignore everything else about the faith.

(This does not mean we actively attack other parts of the imperial faith, if anyone asks us our faith, we tell them that we worship the Emperor.)

>>18450887
BLAM

>>18450917
that may bring us in a higher tithe category.

lets not.

I am more and more convinced we should gloss over the improvements, at least for this turn and report a sub estimation of 10% to infrastructure improvement.
Boast about containing the genestealer threat with the aid of the space marines . make a boast for every day we contained them without space marines.

Also go in very great detail on the genestealer prevention program and suggest he reports that back as a thing to be implemented on all tithe susceptible worlds as tithe refundable improvements, for those who will henceforth implement it. Surely paying for it would be better than loosing worlds to the xeno.

then we should ask the prevention methods hold the name von Braun, and not be refunded for the implementation and development, since as former navy captain it was our duty to protect the planet.

Sadly this impacted with our over all progress.


I would like to be in a lower tithe category as long as it is not fraudulent and punishable, so that we can boost the economy and infrastructure that much more.

also definitely leave out the military improvement or that might be increased in the tithe too. and we dont want that yet. nut until we get some proper guns .

>>18450922
requesting tithe policy information. whatever we know about it as a navy captain. we should know if it differs from world to world and by how much due to officials complains about it at every port of how much they were fleeced by it, or not.

>>18450944
Okay, then stress how we just overthrew a corrupt governer and fought off some genestealers and how we're rebuilding from the devistation the previous two caused?

We should use some of our wealth to commission some less offensive religiously themed artwork, Emps, and some less controversial saints, like Saint Emelia, who preaches about human compassion. for the capital and major population centers.

Maybe inquire to the cost of an religiously themed art meusem?

>>18450898
>>18450902
>>18450914
>>18450917
>>18450928
>>18450944

You don't have a religious line...yet. You have an aide start going over plans for an official "Pulpit" of sorts...Perhaps using that BBC style news station you set up earlier...

Are you sure it's wise to lie to a trained Departmento Munitorum Representative and inspector? He'll be going over records on your progress in great detail and will need an accurate measurement of the strength of your PDF to properly equip them with the weapons and vehicles that your planet cannot yet produce itself. On top of that impressing him with your progress as much as possible would help a lot in negotiations for procuring an advanced Air-force and better lasguns for your PDF and guard.

>>18450944
Also, I thought we got some improved lasgun schematics from the munitorium or something and what we're waiting for is improved armour.

We should see the cost of equipping the PDF with combeads, the whole 1 vox per squad is not only inefficent, but one of the major issues with the quality of PDF in combat, according to the Cain novels.

Something like that isn't readily apparent as to the fighting stregth for tithing, but will doubtlessly improve unit coordination and effectiveness in combat.

>>18450967
well that depends mostly on the issue of how much we can present and represent as we want.

definitely leave the martial improvement out, until better gear is secured. we dont want extraordinary military recruitments just yet.

with the infrastructure i am tempted to be flly honest but cite that we are totally broke afterwards we paid the tithe, and even whisper to ourselves in passing that we had to use our own personal funds to make it to here.

Id like to not be induced in a higher tithe category, but am weary of punitive actions. since i am about to get my buisness minor, i am having very many monetary nightmare scenarios.

>>18450971
We haven't really cooked the books, so I'd guess it will be really hard to lie to him and make him believe it.

BTW, could we invite officers and (a low number of) soldiers from world across the sector to join our training for a few months per unit?
That way we could forge relations with the other armed forces in this sector.

>>18450971
oh. ok. full on honest about improvements then.

go on with the genestealter issue in great detail, dont hide anything about the infrastructure, and present the military matter of factly . dont say anything of praise or to sub estimate or make them look less able. perhaps mention the lack of heavy fire and air support

>>18450971
Be honest but try to get a payment plan for the tithes owed by our predecessor.

>>18450971
No lies, that'll fuck us over, he'll probably be checking for any falsehoods since not only is it his first check, we've also replaced a corrupt fuck.

Just stress at how we've been ravaged by an incompetent and corrupt govoner, and fighting off genestealers (Tau are a double-edged sword, it'd help our case, but also cause suspicion for xeno-lovin')

Mention how we're also inspecting the PDF an the Gov't from the top down for any signs of taint, and show him evidence that we're personally free of the taint.

>also namefagging so people don't think I'm samefagging

>>18450984
that seems a good idea. for a minor fee of course. they have to buy their room and board. and training bullets and gear wear.

>>18450977

This is the guy they said was being sent to talk to you about that.

You make a note to ask him about com beads.

>>18450981

This guy is your only means of securing better gear unless you acquire all the blueprints for vehicles and weapons used by the Imperial Guard one by one and begin local production, this would take quit some kind without contacts within the Munitorum.

Aside from that, the purpose of the Tithing system is that a planet sends only what troops it can spare off to war while leaving plenty for local labor. The Tithe demanded of Rodoris assumed a several million strong PDF to recruit from, so if the manpower Tithe is raised, it won't be raised much.

You are also not broke. If you were paying attention at the end of the Timeskip you'd see that the visit came shortly after yearly tax collection. You have 40 C in your "Spending" account and 63 saved for the express purpose of paying Rodoris' back taxes.

Besides, you have a feeling that after 20 years of getting jack shit out of Rodoris they're not in a mood to deal with yet more tax-evasion.

For the record, I want our tithe to be paid from multiple sources, PDF, Ogryn, Crops, Vehicles, other industrial products and Medicine derived from those flowers.

This shouldn't be too uncommon, as planets that only pay with 1 item tend to be specialist planets, like a fortress or agri-world. I don't want to be stuck paying the tithe purely from 1 source, since we don't seem to be specialized in anything. (At best guess I'd say we're closest to an agri-world.)

DO NOT LIE TO THE INSPECTOR.
Not only is he likely to have lots of experience telling truth from lies, our own records would show that we're full of shit.
Also if we did anywhere near what we set out to do removing corruption, a large number of our subordiantes would tell him the truth anyway.

>>18451025
Let's just pay our fucking taxes and be done with it.

Ask if we can pay half of Rodors' debts next year/tax cycle. But that's it.

>>18451025

Indeed, full on honesty, and ask if we can have Rodoris backlog taxes paid at a later date. try to impress hi with the whole genestealer prevention thing i mentioned earlier.

I was afraid that tithe will raise significantly with infrastructural development, due to different world classification.

>>18451025
We should try to get blueprints for combeads in the future, seeing as we'll need 1 for every pdf trooper, I don't know if we have the current resources or tech for it ATM, though, so only request the blueprints when we're sure we can use them.

As soon as we get the combeads, we need to start running drills that require heavy usage of them, to get them using to to their full potential.

Don't try to sound like we're trying to dodge paying tithes, just mention the fact that the planet's still in reconstruction from all the shit we've been through, so our production is mostly going into rebuilding our shit.

Wait, if it's possible, we should repay a token amount of the back taxes, as a good faith measure.

Exactly how much do we owe in back taxes?

Also, we need price estimates of turning the orbital platforms into the various defense and logistical platforms we need in the long run.

Also we should try to get to know the guy on a personal level, if he's going to be doing our tithing on a regular basis, stricking up a friendship with him will do us a lot of good in the long run.

Some jokes, business dinner, a couple games of Regicide, that kind of thing.

We should also try and get some information out of him, too.

>>18451094
or Thrones. he may like poker more than chess.

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>>18451029

You owe 130 Currency in back taxes.

Almost all of the current derelict stations in orbit are Orbital Defense Platforms, but will require some repairs to return to service.

As he reviews the records, tours various important sites, and watches your PDF training live, his icy businesslike demeanor begins to fade, he becomes far more friendly and casual, even cracking a small joke here and there.

Finally he turns to you: "I will require some time for me and my staff to fully comb through your records, and for all the sleepers I put in your organization to report back, but I believe I can safely say that you accomplished more in three and a half months than Rodoris did in his entire career. In fact, the Munitorum and Adminstratum gave me instructions to forgive the debt of the previous Governor should you prove to be competent in the extreme. And unless you were foolish enough to attempt to deceive me, I believe you more than make the grade."

>>18451094
We should probably try see if he thinks the sector is as deep in shit as we think it is.

>>18451105
What is this "Chess" you're talking about? Is it some kind of wierd Regicide variant?

>>18451107
> derelict stations

Why were those simply floating around in the system? Neglect?

I've an idea, how about we establish an officer's academy or something of the like, with resources designed to train officers, specialists and the like?

I want our PDF leadership to be held to a higher standard than other worlds, with rank being held solely by preformance, in addition, the specialists to be a big help, with combat enginseers and medicae and the like helping out locally during peacetime.

Kinda like a Schola Prognium, designed solely for the PDF.

>>18451107
Nice. We could drop a Navy Pride line, and invite him to a social outing.

>>18451112
heh. nice one.

>>18451148
bueno. I approve.

>>18451107

"As for the Tithe I'm afraid I'll have to increase it notably, but it should be easy to bear, especially considering that all signs, if accurate, point to still more economic growth on the horizon. I'm afraid I must say we will not be raising your manpower Tithe, considering the extent to which you soldiers were trained. I'm afraid I must say that we'll need to send word to have more equipment shipped in, as we were expecting a 200,000 strong Regiment and four million or so PDF to be waiting for us, but you far exceeded our expectations. We were also totally unprepared to outfit Ogryns and provide B.O.N.E. treatments, although that seems to be an oversight on our part."

>Tithe has been bumped from 20 C to 30 C worth of cash and goods every three local fiscal years. Tithe to be paid in money, pharmaceuticals, crops, mineral resources (Still Daysimirs primary export) and Chimera and Ragnarok tanks.

He frowns "One thing that concerns me is a message from an Ultramarines Battle-Barge, something of the Codex I believe it was named, that advised us that a deviant and possibly heretical Chapter had attempted to take root on soil under the Holy Dominion of Ultramar, and that a Genestealer threat was growing out of control. Considering this message, I think it would be best if the Munitorum fleet, and all its escorting firepower, remained in this system until your PDF has been properly armed and the Fortress-Monastery completed"

He flashes an almost warm smile "But, back to business. I believe you said something about procuring better lasguns and body armor for your PDF, along with local om Bead production?"

Anyway:

>What do you want to request from the Munitorum rep?

>>18451171
Ask him for information how the rest of the sector's is doing and that the information provided to us when we took over as planetary governor seems to have been rather inaccurate.

>>18451171

Better equipment will not only allow us to defend our homeworld easier, but will improve the quality of any PDF tithed, as they'll not only be better equipped, but they'll already have experience with said equipment.

It was thanks to the Iron Dragons that the Genestealer conflict was resolved so easily, we could've done so purely by ourselves, of course, but with many more lives lost than with their help. (This should help us play up both the skill of the Resistance and PDF, but also the Astartes.)

The Iron Dragons have done a lot for us, they're partially to credit to the rapid improvement of the PDF, as well as helping out the Genestealer threat. They've also done us a great deed by not only providing us with much-needed technical expertise, but they've also helped us with the rebuilding of vital infastructure.

(Basically try and sell their accomplishmesnts, and gloss over any negative issues)

>>18451194
>I'm also kind of amazed that no one seems to care about the casual mention of Munitorum sleeper agents in your administration

That's more or less something we've got to expect. Pretty much everybody capable of accounting on a planetary scale is either home-grown, a heretic or educated by the Administratum.

>reports of surviving Orks on pieces of that Rok that the Iron Dragons destroyed in the last thread building crude engines in an attempt to reach the surface of your planet

We should probably forward that to do fleets in orbit and have them keep an eye out for these.

>ell, just look at the viciousness of the sudden Genestealer counter-attack combined with sudden use of captive Hormagaunts taht they hadn't, or were not able to, use up until that point
If there's a hive fleet incoming, we're fucked anyway.

However, we should have our pdf & marines search the wilderness as part of their training exercises.

>>18451194
>>18451107

I am mortified about the sleepers.

we need some serious counter intelligence and intelligence apparatus for Daysmir. to warn and counter any chaos, munitorium or inquisiton or xeno or whatever infiltration.

also we were a easy mark for infiltrators, since we just toke over without massive staff to emplace and replace the old one.

and to somehow get the munitorium on our side or at least not against Iron Dragons. perhaps with the sister outpost

>>18451230
Surely the sisters, paragons of faith and purity would not have agreed to have a stopover here if heresy and disloyalty would be afoot.

Chapter politics and position jockeying, my dear Munitorium rep. World Chapters dont like fleet chapters and vice versa

>>18451194
Munitorium sleeper agents can be mostly ignored, anything we'd try to conceal would be in vain now as they already know, and attempting to remove them would only be worse, what they've been reporting would seem like it could only benefit us considering the hole we were in.

With the promethium cleansing and the genetic screening, the genestealers threat should be mostly neutralised, however we should instate annual manditory genetic screenings for all members of the government and military, top-down.

As for the orcs and any genestealer/tyranid survivors, just put out an adivsory notice of any supicious behavior and to contact the government.

Institute a underground/tunnel fighting training regieme in the sewers of all major population centres, and contact the Iron Dragons for any advice dealing with tyranid infestations. (also ask the tithe guy for the same info)

He looks at you gravely:

"The situation in this sector is...less than optimal. Don't get me wrong, the Imperium is still holding it, hence why we're bothering with propaganda at all, but we do not hold an iron grip on it either. The future of this sector remains uncertain, although the presence of the Iron Dragons swings the odds considerably into our favor."

He sighs: "However, this recording in particular disturbs me:"

>"REJOICE, OPPRESSED SLAVES OF THE IMPERIUM, REJOICE FOR OUR SALVATION IS AT HAND!"

>"TOO LONG HAVE WE BEEN SHACKLED BY TECHNOLOGY, BY SOCIETY, INDIVIDUALITY, BY OUR SOULS. THE TIME HAS COME TO JOIN TOGETHER IN THE HOLY FLESH."

>"REJOICE, FOR OUR DAY OF SALVATION IS COMING, WHEN WE SHALL BE REBORN AS ONE IN THE STARS!"

>"AND IT SHALL BE GLORIOUS."

He shuts off the recording as it ends.

"I fear that dark times are ahead for this Sector, Governor. but in all such times brave individuals rise to the challenge. I will begin to try and prepare the sector for whatever may be coming as best my office will allow, but I sense that it is upon you, your exemplary PDF, and the noble sons of Vulkan that the fates of trillions in this sector hinge upon. Choose your path carefully."

>>18451230
I assumed the infiltrators were put into place during the previous reign, with how corrupt it was, it'll explain the "why" and "how".

Nevertheless we should assume the government still has infiltrations/holdouts from the last regieme, so we should tighten security.

(Luckily, getting rid of the corrupt parts of the old administration and the genetic screenings should've helped remove the majority of any infiltrators, but we can never be too sure.)

>>18451288or with good background fakes and suchlike before we took reign , and in ow positions so that we cant change them and the old guard does not get suspicious..

>>18451280
That was during the peak of the genestealer infiltration, luckily we managed to destroy the majority of them with Promethium and Sstartes support, but completely eradicating a genestealer infestation takes YEARS, assure him that, in the meantime, we're conducting genetic screenings of any military personel and government employess, and are putting a alert for suspicious activity.

Release a primer or something on identifiying infiltrations to the public, and put out a general alert.

>elowthre wheat

Also let's try establishing a research facility devoted to improving agriculture, and creating better strands of crops.

>>18451317
Like I said, we can safely ignore munitorium infiltrations, as long as we're doing a good job, they should be happy, if we're doing a poor job, they'll be the least of our worries.

They're too hard to remove, focus on removing infiltrators actively causing harm.

>>18451280
...sigh.
I was hoping the Navy could use us as a stopping point to launch attacks on the ork and daemon worlds. However, it seems we're going to be swamped in various rebellions for a time.
Offer up an open bounty on orks. Pay per head and dedicate at least 3C in total to fund it. The populace is well armed, might as well put that to use.
Ask about the local Navy, inquisitorial(if we're allowed), Guard and marine assets currently in sector. Not their location, but who can we expect to show up on our doorstep looking for sanctuary.

>>18451347
there was a idea of contacting our extended family and giving them aid and invitations or whatever. even social letters.

that way we could contact a large number of officials and naval officers. some even captains to use out hospitality as a good place to port. hey we are family after all.

and the munitorium guy could have them shuttled in our general area. subsector

>>18451229

Regular sweeps of wilderness areas have been instituted.

>>18451230

You begin looking into counter-intelligence training for your agents. Of course, considering that many may be Munitorum sleepers themselves...

The Munitorum seems to be swinging towards the Iron Dragons side for the moment, as they seem far more able and willing to stabilize the Sector than the Ultramarines.

>>18451119

Yes, the one major docking station has been towed back into orbit and repaired, it now serves as both a both a base of operations for the Iron Dragons fleet and as a civilian station to encourage off-planet trade. Dozens more Defense platforms have been towed into orbit for later repair.

>>18451243

"I believe it's more a matter of the Ultramarines and Successors not liking the Salamanders and Successors and Vice Versa, my Lady."

>>18451261

Raltus agrees to begin training both his forces, the PDF, and the Guard in tunnel fighting and anti-Tyranid warfare.

Regular genetic screening has been implemented.

>>18451288
>>18451317
>>18451330

Done, done and done.

Do you want to talk over improved weapons and armor, or a possible Air force, or leave that for another day and check out RT wares now that you have over 100 C to spend.

Or perhaps some third or fourth option?...

>>18451376
Lady von Braun smiles.
"That too, but i was trying to be diplomatic. "

>>18451376
>Or perhaps some third or fourth option?...

Start exploring the other planets in the system. There could be interesting stuff on them, and if one of the pieces of the ork rok managed to arrive in the system, we don't want to have a growing ork population that close to ourselves.

Could we invest in something like early-warning/scanning satellites?

>>18451347

That recording was old, it was from when a lone Genestealer snatched up a fallen commanders vox in the midst of the initial counter-attack. Said Genestealer is almost certainly a lump of carbon in some tunnel, although Astartes elements are still sweeping the sewers and killing the last of the remaining Gaunts' and mutated, six-legged rats.

No Orks have made planet-fall as of yet.

>>18451359

>Meant to implement that a while back, thanks for reminding me.

The von Braun Clan is old, wealthy, powerful, and numerous. Ranging from a few dozen Noble branches living on the Hive World of Scrap Furnace (Not to mention the homeworld of your clan) to various ship officers, a few generals, an Admiral, and a small-time Rogue Trader or two, all are receptive to attending the first big "Family Reunion" in generations at the manse of a cousin who owns a planet.

>Clan Gathering in about four months time.

>>18451376
>>18451399
navy patrols in the general vicinity, perhaps some System monitors too would be great. allow us to explore the system, and foster trade via increased security.

>>18451376
Since the guy's already here, we might as well try and get all our info we need from him right now.

Try and get new weapons/armour as well as commbeads. Inquire as to the nesseccaties and the like of an air force. Ask him for any advice dealing with tyranid and orc infestations, as well as chaos while we're at it, assure him we haven't had any issues with chaos cults atm, but while we're dealing with infiltrators, we might as well cover the whole she-bang.

See about constructing a joint university/military academy, with the university for civillian roles, and the military academy for soldiers.

Try getting our hands on some more crops and flowers and shit, they'll not only provide immediate benifit, but could also go towards a royal garden to boost tourism.

>>18451399

Four rocky, desolate planets with no real resources to speak of and not enough atmosphere to support even Orkish life, and a massive Gas Giant with dozens of various moons. None inhabitable.

The Orbital Defense Platforms, when repaired, will boast enough Auspex capabilities to detect incoming ships from quit a distance. For an extra fee they can be outfitted with improved scanners capable of locating "Cloaked" ships and reducing the effectiveness of Eldar Holo-Fields.

>>18451437
>For an extra fee
How much?

We should set up a quality spaceport. Something that would encourage trade and support the imperial navy.

Also, put a group together to restore the orbital platforms and a budget to work with. I honestly don't expect them to finish within the next decade, but we will need those defenses.

well the sensors would be good. and some system monitors for a SDF.

>>18451499
actually forget the system monitors. ask for what the other agreed for. the Iron Warrior home port should be quite a detriment to most pirates.

we'll have to start a SDF eventually for smugglers and the like anyhow. and to boost space infrastructure.

>>18451470
One of the most imporant parts of the spaceport we need to upgrade is the security, cargo scanners, genetic screenings, that kind of thing, we should also train our spaceport staff to detect infiltrators and their ilk.

Could the improved scanners be used for that kind of thing? I'd want them to be able to detect cargo and any xenos lifeforms.

Also we'll want to renovate the customs office, as not only will that help against smuggling and infiltration and the like, but will probably remove any corrupted officials (by greed or otherwise) and will probably increase offworld revenue.

>>18451417

The only fleet assets you have are your Trade Fleet and the Iron Dragons fleet (Both of which are occupied) you make a note to explore the rest of the system in detail as soon as possible.

>>18451429

He can provide improved lasguns with increased power for 3 C, increased range for 2 C, and an advanced targeting system for 4 C. 9 C for all of the above.

As far as armor, he has an improved version of flak armor that provides increased protection against shrapnel and the like while providing limited protection against direct attacks, like energy bolts or Ork Battle-axes for 10 C.

Remember that this guy is essentially a glorified Logistics Officer and Tax Collector. He employs unorthodox methods (Such as planting sleepers in corrupt regimes) and is manipulating events in the sector in an attempt to prepare it for the dark times he's had premonitions of, but he still has no more experience in dealing with such problems than you do.

>>18451470

You already have a major Spaceport in your capitol. It was enlarged and improved as part of your infrastructure repair program.

>>18451511

By improved scanners I essentially mean Space Radar. It'll help detect stealthy enemies, but not much else.

Order Spaceport Inspection Overhaul for 5 C and Customs Renovation for 3 C?

>>18451515
9c + 10c
nice.

could we detail and teach his retriune in the gene stealer prevention and containment techniques for a trade for those instead of paying. or a drastic reduction?

he could then have them implemented across the sector as a tithe deduction for all and inspect them , of course. better to deduct it from tithe then to loose a entire tithe paying world.

I think he could wave the price for such instruction.

also while sowing end detailing the methods have him and ourselves tested for gene stealer subversion.

>>18451515
Get it all, also see if we can construct a joint University/Officer's academy, let's try and get our hands on skilled biologist/agricultualists to help improve our crops, and check over who we have appointed as the head of our agricultural ministry.

If we manage to construct a joint university/officer's academy, see if we can get some former guard officers/soldiers to help run it, not only will they provide valuable first hand experience with guardmans operations and combat and the like, but they'll also be able to advice us on military matters.

>>18451515
> 9 C for all of the above.
It's in his best interest that our planet is able to defend itself and capable of providing superior forces to the imperium. 8C.

>improved version of flak armor 10C
He'll get his 10C for it if he throws in a filtration system that helps against Tyranid bio attacks.

>>18451541
2+3+4 (lasgun) +5+3 (spaceport) +10 (armour) =27C

hmh...

>>18451543
>>18451546

He agrees to exchange the gear and install com-bead production facilities, gaining anti-Genestealer training and 10 C (At Cost price for the Gear), as it furthers his goals. Plus 9 C expended to secure your Spaceport and overhaul Customs. It seems to you that you've made a good investment.

University costs 20 C, Military Academy 40 C. Do you want to look over the Rogue Traders goods again with 99 C in hand before embarking on this project? Many of the best wares he has available a the moment will have been bought up by the time he returns for his next visit.

>>18451593
yes lets do that

>>18451550

Filtered Respirators included with armor.

so 27 for full upgrades from munitorium.

30+25 for full university.

and we have 103 C

we have to pay 30 C.

this means if we buy them all,

103 - 30 (tithe) - 55 (uni) - 27 (upgrades) gives us a balance of - 9C

if we want them all we need to be able to barter the anti genestealer technques against the guard upgrades, and not just discount- and they are worth far more than just that. he should know that at the very least.

this would give us :

103- 55- 30 - 19 and a balance of -1C.

so we cannot afford everything. not without buying it on credit. or if the tithe for this time is only 20 C.

damn it it is!

this means the first result gives us a final balance of

1 C

and this last balance (all upgrades with barter for guard)gives us a balance of 9 C

>>18451593
Yeah, let's see his wares before we spend even more money.

>>18451615
University + Military Academy is 60IC.

>>18451593
now i feel stupid.

i must have overlooked something. but lets see what the RT has to offer.

>>18451615
I think the tithe comes from the pool of money we set aside specifically for tithes.

I'm hoping for some synergy with a combined Officer's academy and Uni, do we get a discount for building them together?

>>18451593
>>18451619
yes, well the full university option is something with a add-on for 25 that costs 40 unless it has uni

and i may have overlooked some funds.

>>18451621

He lowered price to at -cost in exchange for anti-Genestealer training.

>>18451633
>>18451619


here.
the PI no techpriests.

it gets us our own techpriests. i say we get this. it might allow us to build shuttles and System monitors, invent stuff, and perhaps Reverse engineer stuff.

if we would to get that, and have 99C for the RT that means

99-25 , would give us only 74 for the RT.

>>18451638
nice.

You currently have 99 C to spend unless my math is off.

Wares for sale:

230 Virus Bombs (Note that "Virus Bomb" does not equal Life Eater Virus. These are your average, garden-variety Imperial Bio-Weapons), old and have lost a lot of their potency, many have become completely inert. However, they are still very lethal. If you can hire a Magos Genetor or Bioligis then he could likely return potency to the weapons and revive a few of the dead ones (They make good decoys anyway). (40 C)

One Baneblade: Standard Mars-Pattern Baneblade, Malector found it on a voyage, but has to let it go considering that his Warrant specifically limits him to owning one at a time, and the Inquisition is already watching him under a neutron microscope for any excuse to render him down into a Servitor. (70 C)

Eight particularly vicious and high-quality Combat Servitors, heavily armored and armed with a variety of nasty close-combat and ranged weapons. (14 C)

One Shadowsword tank. Malector plans on running away from any battles that involves fighting enemy titans as fast as possible. (50 C)

One Archaneotech Plasma Pistol. (10 C)

One Rhino APC. (5 C)

One Ring-mounted Digi-Weapon (Laser). (25 C)

One Scaly Gladiator (Slave) (Necromunda-native Abhuman) absolutely loyal to its master and a vicious fighter. Pretty damn smart to boot. (10 C)

One Mutant Vixen (Slave). Flying furry warrior with Psyker abilities and a Billion-Colored sword (It's the Warp, don't ask). Is similarly loyal, but will go on hour-long speeches about how everyone hates her because they don't understand what a super-special snowflake she is if given the slightest opportunity. Incredibly, indescribably annoying but handy in a close-quarters fight if you can handle the near-constant cries of "Fursecution!". (20 C)

A renegade Fire-Warrior clad in a Crisis suit. Looking for a new employer that hates the Tau Empire as much as he does (Mercenary). (10 C up front, plus a regular salary and a position on your staff.)

On one hand I want to do a combined University/Techpriest/Officer Academy because KNOLEGE IZ POWAR, but on the other hand the RT is like a giant mystery box every time he visits.

>>18451698
74 C is still a lot of money to spend on the RT.

and the power to build up our entire system is way too good to pass up. and the sooner they get bought the more they build up.

and now that i see it I want the Tau.

the crisis suit can get studied with the wrecked dread if we stilt have it, and the Tau can be marketed for the Sisters as a case study. To understand how the Tau lost faith in their religion and how to shake the faith of other xenos.

after all, if you know thyself but dont know thy enemy you will lose some and you will win some (IG and PDF before combat), if you dont know yourself and neither thy enemy(or know only thy enemy ) you will loose every time (chaos is insidious to civvies) and if you know thyself and know thy enemy you will be victorious every time (inquisition level)

Rhino and slaves are right out, we can already make freaking chimeras, and the Iron Dragons make their own shit.

We're a naval officer, we got where we were by manauvering ships in space, so I doubt we have much skill fighting in ground combat personally, I'd stick to Botler/Carapace if we have it, rather than buying personal gear.

The baneblade and shadowsword we put of for later, if we're need either in the immediate future, we're probably already fucked.

We should probably appoint some skilled PDF to be our personal bodyguard, and skip the servitors, I don't really see anything from the old list I can see us needing at the moment, what new shit does he have?

>>18451736
and on top of this we get a merc body guard on staff.

One personal Valkyrie Gunship. Gilded and decorated, very high-quality. (10 C)

One Cyberian Granite (Significantly harder than steel) statue of Malcador the Sigillite.

The Death-World seeds he found in the back of the Explorators freezer:

Venus Mantrap: Vicious carnivorous plant, attempts to devour any creature that ventures too close. Grow only in tropical climes. (5 C)

Crawler Vines: Highly dangerous carnivorous vine, grows swiftly in all climates and can cover entire continents if left unchecked. Good for use as a bio-weapon against enemy worlds. (3 C)

Murder flowers: A stunningly beautiful flower whose petals will explode in a shower of mono-molecular shards capable of shredding Terminator armor if you stand too close to it for longer than a few seconds. (6 C)

Pond Muck: Predatory blob of algae that resides in deep pools, lies in wait for prey before pouncing up to engulf them in an acidic embrace. (7 C)

Other shit he dug up out of storage:

Four Ambulls (2 C)

One tame Squig-Hound (8 C)

A Fra'al vase. Very pretty. (1 C)

>Choices?

>>18451740
well, in case of a assassination attempt, or various other infiltration or whatnot assaults a bodyguard could be super.

>>18451736
We're already risking being labelled a heretek with our resistance members using xenos weapons, reverse engineering tau tech doesn't help us any.

I wouldn't be opposed to recuiting some unorthodox techpriests mind, as long as they don't put us in serious danger.

maybe we should see the RT's new stuff before we decide anything?

>>18451740

He doesn't have anything new aside from stuff he dug out of storage bins, because he never left. He's been here the whole time while his Armsmen train with your PDF. Hence the whole "You can always check back later" thing.

>>18451762
well, not reverse engineering.

only studying it on how to destroy it better then.


And perhaps build a analogue with imperial tech. i am certain a dread terminator power armour mismatch and custom fit could get the same result if we know what to aim for.

>>18451755
Hence we get some promising PDF to be our bodyguard, see how much it'd take to equip a dozen PDF in capace + hotshot lasguns, it's a show of support trust for our people, and it gets us some bodyguards for cheap. (It's gonna be WAY chearper to get some suits of carapace + hotshots than it is hiring RT mercs.)

Naturally the bodyguard applicants will be put through extensive testing, phyiscal, loyalty, genetic screening and the like.

Oh, in that case, ask the munitorium guy the cost for the gear of outfitting a dozen or two stormtroopers for bodyguard perposes (Armour, Guns, nades, the works.)
Begin recruiting bodyguards, and how much is the combined Uni+Techshrine+Academy again?

University +Academy is 60 C.

Training up your civilian Engineers, Technicians, Mechanics and the like to further reduce the number of things you ABSOLUTELY NEED Techpriests to operate and repair is 40 C without uni and 20 C with. Uplifting your planet to High Imperial (Can make pretty much anything up to small starships) costs 300 C, or 600 C if you want to have native Mechanics trained in how to use the new shit instead of just bringing in more Techpriests.

whats the cost of the statue ?>>18451750


i say we take the plasma pistol (10), the firewarrior (many uses, and i like the idea of propaganda this one poses) (10c) ,
The whole death world shebang (21c) (once we get a biodome on a lifeless planet , deathworld training ahoy)
Combat servitors, in case of chaos space marine, or eversor analogue. (14 )

and the Valkyrie, because good protected flyer (10)

and perhaps the statue and the vase.

without the statue it all costs 65.

giving us a 9 c spare if we build the university full option.

>>18451829
well, that is a general tech upgrade, since working our way to it would take ages. so its cost is justified.

I think I should also add that almost everything he's selling will have been bought up by the time he gets back to you next. Consider his merchandise to be a one-time deal.

Let's just work with the Universtiy+Academy for now. I'd love to get the shadowsword, but it's too much right now.

We could hire the Tau rebel and have him brief our commanders in Tau tactics. Boarder line heresy though.

>>18451857
xeno mercenaries are not that uncommon in the imperium. and not that heretical.

bowing to them and having relations with them not via a rogue trader or sanctioned imeprial authority is.

we do this legal.

10 C for Malcador. When you request to see it, the statue almost seems to be watching you from cold, stone eyes. Instead of feeling unnerved by this you get a sense of calm, aloof benevolence. As if some old friend or father figure were watching over you from very far away...

Malector asks that you allow him to demonstrate the capabilities of the Rhino, which has been modified in some odd way according to him, and the combat prowess of the slaves before you dismiss all three out of hand.

>>18451857
but the maintenance of needed systems by local forces allows us great ability in infrastructure expansion, without the admech looking over our shoulders and without having a need for constant techpreist supply. meaning in case we are cut off, we dont revert technologically.

those 20 c are a very very good investment.

and if its 20 c then we have a budget of 79 not 74 for the RT,
meaning the things i proposed leave us a rest of 14, sans statue.

Let me get this straight.

We've got 99C to spend. Of that 99C, 60 is going to the Uni+Academy upgrade. That leaves us with 39 C

so how are we affording
>i say we take the plasma pistol (10), the firewarrior (many uses, and i like the idea of propaganda this one poses) (10c) The whole death world shebang (21c) (once we get a biodome on a lifeless planet , deathworld training ahoy)
Combat servitors, in case of chaos space marine, or eversor analogue. (14 )and the Valkyrie, because good protected flyer (10)

>>18451886
demonstrate away.

and we certainly need the statue.

I suspect its some anti chaos or anti psyker defence.

>>18451857
We really don't need a tau to teach u about tau tactics or how to deal with them. We have Davos and his resistance for that shit. I don't know personally I'm against the Tau 10C is pretty expensive for one person.

>>18451904
with uni and academy, the 60, was bought before the 99c for the Rt, at least that is how i understood it.

>>18451918
he may be a Shas'O

>>18451850
Ugh I'm torn between having the uni combo and a baneblade, although with our upgraded sensors, I doubt we'll be taken off guard, and if we're attacked by something capable of throwing baneblade/titan shit at us, we'll have enough time to contact the munitorium.
I'll go with
>>18451836
just to speed things along.

However make sure the Deathworld seeds are only planted on one of the deslate planets in the system, with the seeds kept under strict security.

Make the planet it's used on have restricted access so that no one can smuggle the plants offworld.

>>18451904
Uhh, okay, get the Uni + Deathword Seeds + Flyer.

Use left over money to aquire Stormtrooper Kit for bodyguards (Hotshots, Carapace, Frag/Kracks, some meltabombs, the works), it shouldn't be to expensive since we're getting them for only 2 dozen or so men from the munitorium guy.

>>18451965
I'll second this.

Could somebody archive this, the last time I tried archiving something, I screwed the tags up massively.

>>18451965

We might get away with the shadowsword. It's cheaper than the baneblade and more effective against titan level foes.

>>18451979
>>18451965
>>18451935
lets wait on the demonstration...

>>18452078
>>18452020
I vote against lolrandumb shit. Irony and satire is fine, but I don't like shit like this.

>>18452078
Okay, fit the guns with targeters, and get some Frag and Krack grenades for each man, along with meltabombs, incase of heavy vehicles, 5 medipacs and any other equipment they might need.

>>18452295
We might want to look at it a later time, obviously he won't be able to get rid of the tank for a good while, considering how fucking bonkers it is.

>Yeah...I was trying for an insane Rhino version of of that Land Raider that fought off an Ork invasion all by itself on Rynns World, based on some thread on /tg/ where they tried to make the worst Chapter possible using the Rites of Battle rules. Obviously it fell flat on its face due to it being a stupid concept and me being tired.

>Let's go ahead and pretend that never happened, I'll just make it an overcharged Blood Angels Rhino he somehow got a hold of and we'll move on?

>>18452322

You give orders to have your best bodyguards outfitted this way.

>>18452323
Uhh correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't Rhinos just giant APC's capable of transporting Spess Mehrens?

We already have chimeras and if we need some method of personal transport, we alread have the Valkrie.

Oh yeah, we should also train the body guards in extensive repair for the hotshots because they're apprently finicky as fuck. Maybe we should also them laspistols as a sidearm?

Did I kill the thread with my "lol so random" bullshit?

>>18452393
No, I was typing shit and checking up info, maybe we should designate a command chimera for our personal use, upgrade it with better weapons/armour, with the vox system already in place, it'll make a good mobile command post or shit.

>>18452416
with the 20 in indigenous techpriest analogues im sure its possible. but a command chimera is more in extra communications out the wazzoo and some extra protection.

And not one, but many, one for each mechanized division.

Safety in numbers,

I just realized I'm too tired to make decisions that aren't mind-numbingly retarded. I'll continue where we left off next Saturday, as it's TEN IN THE FUCKING MORNING OH SHIT, I'VE BEEN ON HERE FOR NEARLY 12 FUCKING HOURS.

Have a great Sunday.

>>18452443
No I mean Designate a command chimera for our personal use, THEN add extra weapons and armour.
It'd probably be slower, but it'd also be more effective in deterring a fight.

Forget it, if we need to get somewhere all we have to do is GET TO DA CHOPPA. (and not the Orky kind!)

>>18452458
>>18452468
I had a 4 hour nap and missed out on a good chunk of the thread, sadly.

>>18452516

Yeah, I'm just gonna leave off here. I'm making too many grammar mistakes and my hand is cramping up.

Good day to you all /tg/, I'll be back same starting time next Saturday.