The Force Commanders Guide to Purging Nurgle - Chaos Gate Daemonhunters

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Veloxyll: May 3, 2011; Fuck you say?!

Solarium posted:

Episode 4 - The Ordo Malleus and You
A lot of the plot this episode and discussion around it have been about the conflict between our resident inquisitor ~~Vahlen~~ Vakir and the Grand Master Vardan Kai. After all, Vakir requisitioned an entire ship full of Grey Knights just to run down a single message that may or may not be important. So why the hell was she able to do that? She isn't even a Space Marine!

Now, I won't go into the history of the Ordo Malleus itself, only the most important parts relevant to how it interacts with our group of Space Marines.

The Ordo Malleus is a part of the Inquisition dedicated to fighting Chaos in physical form. While originally part of the larger whole of the Inquisition, it has since split off in order to better focus on it's own thing, and is made up of those like Vakir who are meant to hunt out and destroy Chaos. But one single inquisitor can't exactly fight off armies on their own. That's why all Malleus Inquisitors have the power to requisition and request things from others, even the High Lords of Terra and the Adeptus Astartes.

In this game, Inquisitor Vakir has basically called upon our ship to go and investigate because she said so. No other authority needed. The Grey knights especially must respond to this call due to being a part of the Chamber Militant: essentially, the people the Inquisition likes to call up when they need bad things dead ASAP.

As one final note about the Ordo Malleus: Nobody is allowed to know what they do. Nobody. Only the Grey Knights are left untouched after a military operation. Any members of the Imperial Guard or the Officio Assassinorum who are forced to help? Dead. All of them. You can't refuse the summons, and once they're finished, you get killed. No risking chaos getting out. The only exceptions to this are Space Marines, who are a bit too expensive to go around murdering whenever you need them to help kill some chaos. Instead, they just get all their memories wiped and shipped back off to go do more Space Marine business. Grey Knights are the only ones, along with the inquisitors involved, who get to remember all of what happened.

As I understand it, this policy was changed after the 13th Crusade and they no longer kill off soldiers after encountering the Ruinous Powers' agents.

# ¿ Apr 17, 2024 00:37

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 19:39

Veloxyll: May 3, 2011; Fuck you say?!

Solarium posted:

The Necrons have like 6 different ways they can travel FTL, and all of them turn the laws of physics into the suggesstions of physics.

I thought they got Retconned down to just wormholes, inertialess drives (which don't go FTL), and the Webway.

And yeah, nerds are big mad that there's female Custodes because waaa their power fantasy

# ¿ Apr 23, 2024 09:42

Veloxyll: May 3, 2011; Fuck you say?!

Johnathon War, master of the 40k hammers, does not do spacecraft by half measures.

# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 00:51

Veloxyll: May 3, 2011; Fuck you say?!

FoolyCharged posted:

So a space marine ship that carries a fraction of the full chapter carries a number of soldiers equal to 50 times the number of marines in the entire chapter?

Sci fi numbers, ladies and gentlemen.

Crew, servitors, they're about as intelligent as each other

# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 01:44

Veloxyll: May 3, 2011; Fuck you say?!

By popular demand posted:

Many Astartes thralls have to compete to get to be that faceless cog in the machine, it's considered to be a great honor.

Of course. They get their name embossed on their uniform. And they can get there from being a lowly hiverat. That's as socially mobile as anyone can hope to be in the Grim Darkness of the 41st Millenium.

# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 06:15

Veloxyll: May 3, 2011; Fuck you say?!

By popular demand posted:

It's different on rogue trader ships, the lesser crew is not necessarily indoctrinated on the whole 'glorious crusade' thing (though many RTs do go for that).
Often it's some horrible hybrid of modern corporate culture and slavery (think East India Company)

A Rogue Trader who can't put boots on the ground is soon a Rogue Trader without any planetary assets. Because the peasants are frequently revolting in 40kland.

or Beset by Xenos. Oftentimes both

# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 09:39

Veloxyll: May 3, 2011; Fuck you say?!

That event always bugs me. Like, you're underway, Or just sitting on your hands waiting for more seeds to spawn. A day of contemplation isn't going to upend the campaign

# ¿ Apr 30, 2024 00:21

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 19:39

Veloxyll: May 3, 2011; Fuck you say?!

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!! posted:

useless trivia: the term "tractor beam" was a sci-fi-ism of the oldest and most venerable type, "take a description of what it does and then cut off a superfluous syllable"

attractor beam -> tractor beam, android ->droid, gravity gun ->gravy gun

Except tractors, being heavy farm machinery used to pull things, is also right there. And would fit with the qualities

# ¿ May 9, 2024 23:21

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