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This galaxy isn't yours! (On hiatus)

uhhh.. what?

This galaxy isn't yours! (On hiatus)

or mag boots so you are locked to the ship and then it really doesnt matter...

This galaxy isn't yours! (On hiatus)

The captain listened to the Mekhar, ok maybe he was wrong. The Mekhar did see, and did nothing to ease their suffering. He wasnt sure what was worse. The Mekhar allowing the suffering to continue while they watched whole planets burn and do nothing, or his first thought that they simply didnt know. Either way the Mekhar where infuriating, he was half tempted to turn his guns on the ship and blast them until they gave up the tech, or he could pick it from their burning wreck. That was a bad idea he was sure, so he patiently waited and listend.

"Gargan, are you truly ready to bear the weight of our knowledge, even if it could mean the end of every sentient life in this galaxy if it falls into the wrong hands? Will you alone, decide the faith of every other race that suffers under the humans tyrannic rule?"
"Are you willing to take all that responsibility alone?"

"how... can you, the Mekhar, not see this! It doesn't matter if we Gargan or these creatures" he says waving a hand at the Rarian minotaur bending the barrel of a tank "are ready to bear the weight of such power, the human beings have been purging Xeno life from their galaxy, you are not far behind. if you do not help us NOW! there will be nobody left to help save you from fleet after fleet grinding you all to dust. If you could have you would have pushed the Humans back out of this Galaxy already... No we will not be alone in the responsibility, we will recruit help whoever will help us. We are not stupid enough to fight the humans alone. Every Xenos willing to join us will help burn the human empire to the ground and form a mighty alliance. You can either assist us with what you can or you can hide behind your borders and watch species after species burn beneath the human Empire and you know you could have helped save us."

The captain finished, he said his peace. If the Mekhar did not give him what he was after he would return to the General and request a small raid fleet and start Pirate operations against the Mekhar too until they stole the technology they needed. He was loath to do it, but they where pissing him off it was getting easier each time they said something stupid that pushed every Xenos closer to extinction. He sat back down in his command chair and watched the screens for a reply

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Deep Interstellar Space

The Gargan main battle group sat near an ion storm cloud in deep space, light years from any star. The civilian ships where also close to the storm, making food and constructing a few frigates and cruisers. They would be stuck near the storm for a few weeks while the ships where constructed. The main battle fleet sent out raids against any human transport. Over the last week they took 4 transports and destroyed 8 escort ships while only losing 1 destroyer, It was a good week. Their hope for victory was off deep into Mekhar space, but even if they did say no they where going to fight the Empire to the last.

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Empire Trade Lane

A group of transports carrying arms and munitions drops from FTL in the vicinity of a huge red giant. They sit waiting for their FTL dives to charge and make the next leg of the journey. Before their engines where cooled down from the last jump dozens of Gargan ships dropped into the space above them and within range, even before the human ships have realized the danger the Gargan are plotting firing solutions, when the first transmissions of the problem are sent to the escort ships the first volley of missiles, rail slugs and drones have launched and within a moment had destroyed the majority of the escort ships. Those that survived tried to flee, but the Gargan frigates where prepared and chased them down, hammering their engines with heavy rails. Each transport and the ships that where disabled surrendered, Which Argas accepts. In moments the ships are taken by Gargan marines and a few engineers on the disabled ships, debating if they should repair and steal the whole ship or strip the useful bits. While The engineers sorted things out each human was either shot or launched into space without a suit.

They decided to steal the transports with full racks of Imperial guns and ammunition and one of the least damaged frigate escorts. They repaired the ship quickly and got it out of easy range of the shipping lanes. Examining the logs the planet with "Rarians" would have some under armed soldiers for a few weeks until the next transport got there. Probably wouldn't make a significant difference but its an extra headache for those in command there.

This galaxy isn't yours! (On hiatus)

i hope the mekhar are understanding folk...

This galaxy isn't yours! (On hiatus)

Diarg, Captain of the catapult cruiser Firblog, arrived in the uncharted sector on the tail of the Mekhar ship. He still had his crew at high alert, weapons primed and drone craft in the launch tubes. However there was only the one ship that he could see.

"full scan of the area! i want no-" Diarg started
"Incoming Hail sir"
"open the channel, i still want that scan"

The captain listened to the Mekhar about worthiness and tests. He tightened his grip on his command seat, Worth? tests? this was insane. The Gargan had been fighting the Empire single handedly for 300 years. No support, no allies, nothing and the Mekhar wanted to test their worth? Sure, them Mekhar had been doing the same with more advanced technology and whole planets of resources to draw from. Before he could reply he noticed the Mekhar ship accelerate away.

"fine" he grumbled to himself, if that is how they want to play this. he would play, briefly. The cruiser was not designed for complicated high speed maneuvers but what it lacked in speed or turning ability he more than made up for in firepower. If he had to he could blast a hole in the cluster of asteroids. So the cruiser started its sublight drives and moved forward, accelerating much slower than the Mekhar. As they drew within the range of the Asteroids several of the Mekhar small drones took off out of the asteroids and sped towards the cruiser.

"Captain, he have signatures. Appear to be light attack drones."
"Launch drones, target with point defence guns. Our armor should hold off these attacks"

after a moment 36 Gargan light drones exploded from the cruiser and took off to intercept the Mekhar drones. The combined fire from the Cruiser and drones made short work of the Mekhar drones. The captain quite annoyed now watched as the gap that may have allowed his ship through started to close between the asteroids. "Lock missiles, asteroid 1, 2, and 3. prepare to reload and lock asteroid 33, 46, 81, and 90."

As the cruiser closed with the astroids within a few kilometers a punishing salvo of missiles launched from the cruiser blasting the asteroids away from each other making a hole for the cruiser, and peppering in exploded asteroid dust. It pressed on, a shield of drones around it keeping any mekhar drones back while the cruiser blasts a hole through the asteroids. A display of obvious frustration by a ship who could not have easily navigated the asteroids in the same manner.

Upon reaching the other side and drawing up near the Mekhar ship Diarg opens a hailing channel. "Now hold on a moment." he starts, voice obviously twinged with frustration "The Gargan, Void Raiders have been fighting against the Empire for 300 years after we lost our home world. We have had no allies, no support. How does that alone not make us worthy?" Said the captain quite upset, like the hundred of years his people fought to survive, much less build the grand fleet they now have was for nothing. "My ship may not be that advanced, but we had to build her in space floating in a nebula. 6 Gargan engineers where killed during her construction from lighting in the nebula. If you want to continue your frivolous tests, fine. But! if you had been watching anything outside your borders for the past few hundred years you would have seen us fighting the Empire on the fringes of your space. You would have seen us growing, and winning."

Are We the Bad Guys? - A WH40k RP [Mature]

Well thats easy, We are sentenced to be pawned off to a Penal Legion or executed later which sounds awful so... we join you and we get to be free? Deal

they are all disreputable anyway like Acid Dogs or other hive gang criminals tossed into imperial service. so the idea of being pirates or whatever would be more agreeable than being executed. It would mean a few small edits to the CS nothing important, the flavor would be the same. Except the first stop he would demand would be the Armory.

The Magical Planet - Ecetopia - Open

Mortan listened to the pair. Vaulthuz seemed more agreeable than this Shaman, and yes he did noticed the dispeasure with the title. Vaulthuz spoke of peace, destroying the world so there was only enslaved undead and grow a truly powerful undead empire. Mortan considered the idea, nothing he had really thought of if he where honest, it was the pirsuit of knowledge he desired. Their goals could align quite well however, as a world burned beneath their armies he would have all the bodies he could possibly need... at the same time he had no desire to be the general. such things did not suit him but he would probably have to take time away from his studies to raze a city or world occasionally.

"Vaulthuz, your plans are very agreeable. I would happily be a party to your conquest" he said, but specifically not bowing in a show of fealty, he wanted to ensure that Vaulthuz understood that Mortan was his equal and not some minion at his beck and call. "Unfortunately i have none of the Golems presently. They where lost during my travels but with a supply of fresh bodies and some time, i could make you a simple one. A... proof of concept if you will."

Mortan turned his attention to Tiaz, slightly annoyed at the breaking of the Ghoul's neck, it still functioned but it was essentially useless as a minion now. He concentrated a moment and severed the magic reanimating the Ghoul letting it collapse to the ground. He then noticed the general dislike of his Knights.. they where living humans, which was a problem he was trying to solve and keep the knights as deadly as ever. Perhaps he could convince them to be turned by his vampire friends, but that was for a later time. Mortan began to examine te rest of the room more carefully, before his eyes locked onto the still open portal. Now that was interesting, and gave him a perfect excuse to ignore Tiaz.

"This portal, it is a gate not a simple transit for you. You mean to establish a beach head here... Facinating" he takes several steps past the two and begins to examine the portal closely. "How... does this work? Fueled by souls? hmm" he continues his examination losing several moments in thought. "My apologies. as for a display of my creatures" he says to Tiaz "and establishing your foothold on this world" to Vaulthuz "I think there is a perfectly agreeable place very near. If i remember correctly there is a fort near here. A small place maybe... two or three hundred soldiers and a small town that has grown nearby to support it. You may have seen it Tiaz, am i correct?"

Are We the Bad Guys? - A WH40k RP [Mature]

@BCTheEntity, no hard feelings seriously. I felt it was very compelling, and character building (for everyone else obviously)

now. i think i will need to change Oskar's circumstances so that he is an armsmen aboard the Sloop, which i think would be easier to incorporate into the party. as for how this should work, me thinks @Klomster should run into Oskar. we could say he finds the brig, where Oskar and a few other troopers are imprisoned and recruit them into the boarding party. (yes i am trying to bring a whole squad of imperial guard in to help balance the power a little)

This galaxy isn't yours! (On hiatus)

ok, im going to put this here too, i have reforged the CS. and as a note all my posts on the planet have no longer happened and the pirates are entirely fleet based now. (but a little more interesting)

Name:Void Raiders

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Type of Governement: Military Dictatorship

Description of Governement: 'The General' is a pirate king who rules the the fleet from his flagship with an iron fist.

Main race: Gargan- Humanoid, about the same size but slightly taller and thinner due to prolonged generations in space.


Minority races: Human 4%
Rarian 0.5%
Other 0.5%

Religion: N/A

Culture: The Blood raiders are cruel and savage, and excellent warriors. The rogue fleet has evaded the long arm of the Imperium for 300 Years since their defeat above their former homeworld. The bulk of the fleet often hides in nebulae or other unchartable regions of space where the Imperial sensor arrays are essentially useless, from these hidden locations they send out squadrons of frigates and cruisers to capture Imperial cargo ships and warships. They are looked down upon because they rarely leave survivors and execute any crew they find regardless if they surrender or not. They are deeply hated by the Imperium but not viewed at a real threat to the Empire itself, a local danger for shipping and patrols but they have never captured territory nor managed to liberate their former home.

Every facet of the Blood raiders is bent to wage war, they have a vast fleet capable of sustaining many thousands with Imperial cargoships converted into mobile farms making food and air for the fleet. They even have captured mining vessels who process metals and ice into what they need. Every pound of metal and gallon of water is carefully utilized for the war by making ships, weapons, ammunition or food and water. Many of the looted supplied from the Imperials are either taken and reprocessed into what the Raiders need or sold on the black market for cash. This makes the Raiders one of the largest distributors of Imperial military equipment on the black market, and this trade makes up the majority of their income.

History: Since the fall of their home world some of the Gargan navy survived and escaped into a nebulae where they waited for several years before they needed to venture out and resupply, They where going to touch down on some populated world and try to barter for it when their warships happened across an Imperial transport that was laeden with food and even some farming equipment, so they simply took it and executed the humans on board. This cargo ship did not supply them for long and they slowly turned bandit to survive taking transport after transport and destorying the escort vessels that started to accompany the transports. Before long they had more empty transports than they could crew so they started a crazy project, stripping each down and melding them together into enourmous ships that where painfully slow, but warp capable, and where engineered to become vast farms floating through the void. It took years to convert dozens of ships into one grand transport and by the time they had completed one they had more than enough transports to convert again.

This process carried on for years, to the point that there where more than enough farms to comfortably supply the whole navy. So the admiral at the time decided to undertake an insane project, he requesitioned yet another grand transport but before construction was complete several ships raided a manufacturing plant taking hundreds of machines and rather than a farm he made a floating factory, it was terrible at its job because the cargo ship was not shaped well to support a factory, but it was the stepping stone the admiral needed. Rather than simply melding cargo ships together into longer and longer tubes, he could make his own ships. the factory started making components that where not found on the transports and made a true floating factory that was actually more efficient because the gravity could be turned off and several tonnes of material could be moved by a single worker.

This continued for years and the fleet grew into a huge and complicated network of ships to maintain a war effort that he had no business maintaining. Mining ships, smelters, factories, colossal 'hive' ships and the fearsome warships. The Void Raiders, as they became known, had assumed their homeworld was taken and their people destroyed, so they took no mercy on the empire even as it brought more misery upon the survivors.

Important characters:
Daer- The General, supreme comander and dictator of the Void Raiders fleet, he was born and raised in the fleet rising through the ranks quickly due to his superior tactical mind and daring actions. He has grown the fleet substantially since he took command, and made the Void Raiders something of a legend through out the Imperium as one of the Empires most wanted. He is savage and cruel, when dealing with the empire. He will launch missiles into populated areas on a planet or lay siege to civilian space stations if the need suits him. He is of a mind that the whole of humanity is arrayed against him and happily wreaths destruction and fear wherever his fleet goes.

Liarn- Governor-Militant, the commander over the civilian ships and the battle group assigned to protect the fleet of industrial, agricultural and housing ships. He is not as brutal as his General but is still a tactical master, having saved his fleet many times from suprise raids and Imperial attacks.

Argas- the Raider Admiral, son of General Daer, he is just as savage as his father but is notorious in his own right. He commands the Raiders on their attacks on Imperial supply lines, he commands a specialized Bandit cruiser and a vetran team of Raider craft to execute his raids. He is a master of suprise ambushes and attacks direct from FTL. although he has difficulty commanding large fleets and keeping track of the whole battle when there is a large engagement. In small skirmishes he is a superb commander having out manuvered several Imperial rising stars who thought they could best Argas.

Description of Military:
The Gargan rely on a combination of several tactics. For their pirate actions they rely of lightning strikes to cripple and disable hostile escort ships before boarding the ships they want to capture and exterminating the crew. Boarding parties are elite marines in especially heavy armor that can shrug off all but the most dangerous imperial weapons, they take no prisoners. When the Void Raider's capital ships are involved they are slower paced and rely on long range tactics, pummeling the enemey from long distance with heavy rail cannons and punishing barrages of missiles. Once they are in range of more conventional weapons they launch hordes of drone fighters, a single carrier can launch thousands of drones. Each one is not terribly powerful but in such numbers they swamp any level of point defence and can pummel down even large battleships given time.

the 'civilian' fleet is carefully protected to the point of paranoia. They permenantly have a carrier and several battle cruisers with them as a last resort, and most of the civilian ships had a small hangar bad attached to them to lauch even more drone fighters. And imperial patrol that stumbled across the civilian ships would be swarmed with drones even beyond that of the battle group. However they lack many of the heavy rail guns that make the battle group deadly.

other than the Gargan boarding parties they have very little in the way of ground troops, but this is going to be changing soon, they have reconfigured and done some testing with walking battle droids.

Technology:
The Gargan computer networks form the basis of every small advantage the Gargan have over their Imperial enemy. Primarily is their drone systems. a single drone is next to useless and will do very little damage, their danger comes with the vast numbers being deployed. the piloting algorithms are very basic collision avoidance and minor shifts in trajectory to make them more difficult to hit by defence turrets. but they are nearly totally unarmored and are simply a gun with some engines and an antenna, often being destoryed by the first or second hit by small point defence turrets.

The second are the accuracy of their long range weapons. While the rail guns are top of the line technology stolen from Imperial warships and reverse engineered by themselves give no advantage, but the firing solutions plotted by their computer systems are slightly more accurate at longer ranges than the Imperial systems generally compute. The Gargan ships are firing more accurately at the extreme edge of their range than most imperial ships can manage, often cutting down several enemy ships even before the first Imperial ships land their first hits.

Third are more accurate jump calculations as the Gargan computer can drop from FTL with a smaller margin of error than most other FTL ships. This is mostly used in their ambush tactics, however it is occasionally used to put a small strike force amongst a large enemy fleet to sow chaos in the ranks as the drone swarms grind down the enemy.

the final advantage is Gargan cryptography, It is unimagineably complex, any messages intercepted are rendered down into useless gibberish. The foundation of the cryptography is from the strife before the Imperials attacked the Gargan at all, the eternaly evolving algorithums of encryption are so complex that Imperial cryptographers have tried and failed numerous times to breech their communications, and any captured machines are rendered useless in a few hours. This same encryption is what protects their advanced computer networks from any kind of hacking.

Fleet full description

Frigate: Raider

Fast raider vessel armed with a pair of heavy Gauss cannons, used as a lightning strike vessel to cripple or destroy ships escorting transports. The frigates can also drop from FTL behind or near enemy groups and launch heavy suprise attacks to distract the enemy from the capital ships or risk being crippled from behind.

Destroyer: Bandit

A heavy combat vessel that relies on the accurate jump calculations to exit FTL within range of their target and launching a punishing barrage of gauss shells and missiles to obliterate a target or several in one go. The ships is rather slow for for an ambush ship and used to take down ships larger than itself during a raid.

Cruiser: Catapult

The smallest Gargan Vessel to carry drones, it only carries a few squadrons, im most situations the drones are a defensive countermeasure against enemy strike craft. It is a long range force with extreme long range cruise missiles and makes up the majority of a Void Raider fleet's missile barrage.

Battle Cruiser: Arbalest

The workhorse of the large Gargan fleet actions. These ships are slower moving that any of the raider type ships and makes up the hail storm of Rail slugs tearing across the battle zone, they have the highly accurate targeting computers and can hammer at imperial ships for several salvos before the Imperials are within their effective range.

Battleship: Armaggedon

The heavily armored brawler of the Gargan Fleet, it puts itself between the enemy ships and the carrier ships, using is gauss cannon batteries to obliterate any ships that get too close. Their heavy armor makes them slow but also incredibly tough to destroy, most weapons only bury into the armor without actually breeching the hull.

Carrier: Hive

The hive class carrier his largely unarmed, other than a complicated network of point defence guns that will keep small strike craft and frigates away but heavier ships are a grave danger to the carrier if they managed to get within range. However they are capable of launching thousand of drone fighters to withering effect, grinding an enemy fleet down with a constant hail of pulse lasers.

Drone: Swarm

The swarm drones are simple fast drones with a single heavy pulse laser, the individual dones do very little damage but when thousands of them are pummeling a ship in a concentrated area their combined fire will tear through even the thickest armor quickly.

Drone: Tormentor

The Tormentor drone are nuclear suicide drones, they are built for speed and manuverablility. They latch onto enemy capital ships, aiming for more vital components such as the bridge, engines, life support and detonate the nuclear payload often with terrible results.

Drone: Siege

The Siege drones are similar to their Swarm counterparts but carry a heavier beam cannon, the larger weapon makes them slower bomber type ships rather than fighters, but their firepower augments the drone capability to punch through the thicker hull of larger ships.

Civilian Fleet description

Most of these Civilian ships and almost totally unarmed, while they have a few point defense turrets to drive off strike craft or shoot a few missiles down they are unable to defend themselves from any serious attack.

Industrial

Large mobile industrial centers, they are fit for whatever the need such as mass smelting furnaces or component manufacturing, they also have vast cargo bays to hold huge quantities of materials. These ships are often parked next to a mobile shipyard continually shuttling materials over to build the ship or as part of a daisy chain of industrials, refining ore, to make parts, to make components, to go to the shipyard.

Agriculture

these are huge mobile farms over a kilometer long that make up the bulk of the raider's food production.

Mobile Shipyard

This ship is a mobile shipyard that can construct any ship of the raider fleet including its carriers. however they are terribly slow at construction and can not leave while a ship in underconstruction unless they abandon the unfinished ship. If construction is started it is because there are enough material stored to build the ship they need and are in a well hidden location while they are constructing the ship. Often hidden deep in a nebulae

Life Boats

these simple ships are where the fleet grow their families. While each ship has sleeping quarters for the crews and workmen but these ships have areas to spend time relaxing and is largely an empty tube with nothing but housing areas for the growing population until they can be given jobs on other ships

Freighter

The freighters are large ships that are nothing but empty space to carry vast hordes of materials for later use

This galaxy isn't yours! (On hiatus)

@6slyboy6 flak batteries. You cheeky little... well, i should have known you would try and hard counter me ;)