[quote=@BCTheEntity]I figure it's far more likely for them to just go ramming speed into an Imperial ship's bridge, take the bridge hostage, and commandeer the ship via suitable "persuasion" of the captain, whether social and subtle, or "I will mind control your brain directly via technology". 99% of the crew never even has to know they were boarded, on account of 99% of the crew doesn't work on the bridge.[/quote]


Most people do seem to forget this, [b]this[/b] being the fact that only the folks on the bridge really know what's going on on the bridge, the vast majority of any Imperial ship never even knowing who the hell is leading them. Then there's Rogue Trader ships which have entire crews made up of servitors...anyway, that's for a different time.

I am surprised that, out of all the plans, no-one has gone for a little bit of mind control, especially our Green resident; it may require that we abduct the Cap'n and implant something in their brain (probably where we bring the Mech in), but either way it may be preferable to warping an entire Xenos vessel.


[quote=@BCTheEntity]Worth noting, but the actual decision of what ship to board is going to be Vedius'; whilst we should pick a ship to board, it ought to be based on Vedius' mindset of "what is a good ship to board and how". That said, a random Eldar ship winds up being a definite "no" in this situation, since there's no real way for Vedius to know that anything along the lines of the plan Necroes has suggested could be done, and I imagine even if he did, he'd rather object to turning hundreds of sentients into Chaos Spawn like that.[/quote]


This is only partially true...mostly the part about my choice etc. The ship is on auto-pilot, the codes have already been figured out, so technically anyone with even rudimentary piloting skills could probably pilot it. Then again, no-ones even asked him, although the ship [b]is[/b] damaged and probably needs to be landed/docked somewhere sooner rather than later, which does mean that chasing after an Eldar vessel does seem unlikely.

If I need to [i]GM ex machina[/i] this thing then I will, but I reckon we can come up with something that doesn't involve mass spawning and running about after shadows in a slowly decaying ship.