thewizardguy

The Gregorian - Imperium (Warhammer 50K RP, The Shape of the Nightmare to Come)

I sent my idea via PM, just announcing my interest here.

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@Tyki
The Origin of characters is listed on the character sheets.

HCL V: insert witty title here

@supertinyking@Letter Bee

The entity that had slipped onto the boat seemed to evaluate the other being's presence, and then deemed it irrelevant at current. It had more pressing concerns, as it's prey was just within it's reach. Reaching out the virus spread through every known system, corrupting everything it touched. Files were erased, data removed, systems broken down. Within moments it was in complete control of this vessel, using a few of the surviving robotic servants in order to operate those tasks that required manual operation. It seemed there had been some damage as whatever other force acted here had slaughtered the previous inhabitants, but nothing that threatened the integrity of the ship itself. Which was good, as the ship was instantly pushed to it's maximum, the energy core being driven into overdrive as every system sprang to max power. All of the leaders of the Mon Alliance were in one place. He would leave them no time to realise their mistake. Imperialdramon trembled as the very tractor beam that had moment before been lifted was now once more applied, this time at double strength, aiming to pull the large Digimon/vessel closer. At the same time the disk-shaped Genome ship shot forward, rapidly accelerating to max speed as it set a collision course. Weapons were fired more for diversion and minor damage, lasers aimed mainly for Imperialdramon's eyes and ears, as the larger ship shot closer, like a skyscraper-sized bullet to the face.

At the same time an urgent distress signal would echo throughout the local subspace sectors. An interdimensional message sent on several very specific frequencies, even as an odd jamming presence sought to isolate the Mon Alliance from calling in allies. Many of the nearby ships from the Genome Empire received an urgent distress call from Nathan's capital ship, declaring that they had been attacked by a strange opponent known as the Mon Alliance. All forces were called to immediate action, dropping prior engagements to defend their liege and lord. A similar message was sent to Malakai's homeworld, being received by the tyrant's minions and personal guard. A force known as the Mon Alliance was rapidly approaching his world and was currently engaged with the Genome forces he had deployed to guard his world from attack. They required assistance, however, to crush this opponent once and for all.

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@WrongEndoftheRainbow

Take into account that many of the characters in the Characters section are no longer active. The only currently active factions are your own, the Imperium of Man, the Immortals, and the Tyranid. And both the Immortals and the Tyranid are unlikely to directly respond to your arrival.

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- Arcadia, Imperium of Man -

@Wraithblade6@Supertinyking

Mithias swiftly notices the series of Heavy Bolter Turrets that have been constructed along the oceanfront. He would have to approach from land in order to avoid being identified as a Tyranid, most likely blasted out of the sky before anyone could question it. Having thus veered off from his course he would find it easy to approach one of the nearby bunker-like outposts, armoured blocks occasionally with similar turrets placed on the top. The Imperium lacked the troops to keep manned turrets all along it's border, so instead it created these sensor relays which detect intruders. Each includes a Unity Gate, which allows the Imperium to teleport in troops at will. This was among the many things Mithias had learned from his Space Marine allies. As he approached he could faintly feel the tingling sensation that he could now associate with Unity Engine deployment, too slight for a human to notice, and a full squad of Salamanders marched out of the small building with Bolters at the ready.

The leader of the small squad marched forwards confidently, his lack of a helmet clearly showing off the jet-black skin and glowing red eyes, features to match the Imperium's leader. He looked over these two strange stragglers, one of whom was a robot. "Greetings. My name is Alyander Kairn. I will need to perform a DNA test in order to ensure that you lack the Tyranid gene sequence. Standard procedure. If you aren't infected, and you don't match one of our emergency filters, you'll be allowed to proceed." Such checkpoints had previously been found only at the entrances to cities and military bases. The Imperium had always kept up an attitude encouraging free travel. However, with the Tyranid invasion now a clear threat, stronger checks were in order. An infected individual could raise plenty of havoc even outside of population centers, gathering biomass for the main fleet and marking targets.

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Probably won't be able to post today, because it's my father's birthday.

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- The Rock, Arcadian Orbit -

@WrongEndoftheRainbow

Sensors were still reeling from the unexpected dimensional fissure. A large portion of the Rock's sensor system had been dedicated to detecting the strange energies that were now associated with the Pop-In Effect, a temporary nickname for the mysterious phenomenon that brought beings of power to Arcadia. While usually occupied with detecting the small blips representing individual appearances and the larger blips marking the appearance of small groups the entire 3D representation of Arcadia seemed to explode in bright technicolour as the nearest techmarine frantically tapped away at the many nearby consoles. It took five minutes to ascertain that the system was not in fact overloading and another ten to discover that all of Arcadia hadn't spontaneously been covered in extra-dimensional algae. In fact the effects that had been picked up from Arcadia were the shockwave, so to speak, of what was undoubtedly the most large-scale transportation yet. It seemed that thousands of space vessels had spontaneously appeared all over the solar system, pulled in from another universe. This of course simply caused even more uproar and the disruption of the norm had the usually stunningly efficient and quiet workplace of the Rock filled with shouts of dismay and bustling Servitors.

The Rock, of course, was the name for the Dark Angels space-bound Fortress Monastery. It's name was derived from it's abnormal method of construction, in fact the entire base had been built into a giant meteor. The meteor had previously served as the mobile HQ of the Dark Angels chapter as they sailed across the galaxy, and now served as the primary home of the New Imperium's space-bound forces. It was also responsible for monitoring both the surface of Arcadia and the rest of the solar system, which was achieved with a rather impressive array of sensor equipment. Overseeing these dual duties was Supreme Grand Master Azrael, leader of the Dark Angels Chapter and the Fleet Admiral of the New Imperium, the third most powerful individual within the Imperium. The man who at this moment found his patience being tested as he quieted the room down, and with a few orders prepared the station to engage these strangers. Should they prove, as he suspected, to be merely confused strangers, they would be diplomatically engaged with. Should this, however, be some sort of mass attack from one of the other factions the station and local fleet would be fully prepared to counter, even against the truly overwhelming number of ships this new force appeared to be composed of.

It was soon discovered that, while large, this fleet was clearly in disarray. Nearby ships moved closer together while ships further away aimlessly circled around. To add to this they were all sending out signals like crazy in all directions, seemingly attempting to communicate with random patches of dirt on a variety of planets. A surprisingly small number of said ships actually sent signals towards Arcadia, which was odd considering Arcadia was clearly the only habitable place in the solar system. The Rock was able to intercept a number of such signals, but they lacked the knowledge to translate the concentrated bundles of light into data. In order to do this they would have needed to know the specific 'cipher' used for translation, although a rigorous decoding effort by the adeptus mechanicus might have been able to discover the cipher in time. Even then the actual messages were probably also encrypted, standard military protocol. And whatever race or time these ships were from, they were certainly military, many of them bearing flags and guns on their design. Azrael decided the best way to gain information about these figures was the old-fashioned way, and he designated the recently returned crew of the Devastation, an Imperial Battle Cruiser, to go say hi to the largest cluster of ships, currently orbiting Jupiter.

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Once more Captain Dromari set off on his vessel, the Devastation. It was a fairly standard vessel by Imperial measure, a Mars-class Battle Cruiser, and billions of it's like had been deployed across the galaxy. Even the relatively understocked New Imperium still had a couple more of these flexible standard ships, hence why it was these that were sent out on important missions. However, to the USN Fleet Jovian the ship would be an astounding sight indeed. Measuring at over 5km in length the ship mounted a large variety of weapons, ranging from the immense 100m Nova Canon on it's front to the Macro Canon batteries that formed it's main offensive arsenal. The ship's design was also completely alien to them. Instead of the practical smooth metal hulls of conventional spacecraft this lumbering vessel sported cathedral-like towers and external metal decoration in some strange sci-fi gothic style. Like a flying cathedral fused with battleship and a small city, and this abomination now sailed across the gulf of space towards them. Perhaps the most surprising of all was the heavily armoured prow which seemed completely unnecessary, until one realised it was designed for ramming enemy ships. Certainly this ship would look like a thing of fantasy and myth to the estranged and confused astronauts, although it's immense size and equally immense weapons granted it a certain aura of intimidation that simply cannot be achieved without overwhelming firepower.

Doing nothing to dispel this initial aura of mystification was the fact that the first communication from the alien vessel was via psychic powers. Several of the ship's technicians and officers would have a mild headache as a voice identifying itself only as One Among Many intruded upon their minds, demanding all knowledge pertaining to the USN's communications system. While lacking the power to forcibly extract such information over such a distance the telepaths responsible were soon rewarded for their efforts, as the simple officers lacked the training to shield their thoughts and many actively thought of such things even as they were being probed. Soon the nearest USN ships would receive radio signals dictating that they were to identify themselves, and demanding contact with their leaders. Through this simple method of communication the immense ship identified itself only as being a vessel of the Imperium of Man. Further information would require active communication from the Fleet Admiral. And should the Fleet Admiral not spread order quickly, it was quite possible that a frightened ship captain would do something unfortunate.

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@WrongEndoftheRainbow

Hmmm.... well, if it's 1970s tech I'll allow it. In a straight confrontation they might overwhelm most opponents through sheer numbers, but with that low tech they'd be vulnerable to a lot of tricks that others have countered. For example, teleporting troops into enemy ships as part of boarding operations.

Faction (and characters) accepted.

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@WrongEndoftheRainbow

I recognize that, but also take into account that the New Imperium Fleet consists of about 10 ships. Admittedly I doubt any 1 ship (or even 10 ships for that matter) from the USN Jovial Fleet could take on a proper Imperium battleship, but there's still a numbers gap of a few thousand there. The faction that comes closest to the numbers you possess is the Goa'Uld, and even they only have a couple hundred ships, not counting individual fighters.

And you realise that the information that even your smallest ships carry dozens if not hundreds of missiles doesn't exactly assure me that they're not going to roll over everything?

In any case, I'll allow you to bring your entire fleet, but recognise you're going to be the largest target. Any enemy fire is going to be directed mainly at you, because you just brought in an army several hundred times the size of any other faction.

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@WrongEndoftheRainbow
Jesus Christ that's a lot of ships. But okay, that'd be interesting.

Faction accepted, but take into account two things

1) you're going to be entering Arcadia. basically being teleported into orbit around the planet, most of your fleet spread throughout the solar system.
2) I may fodderize some of your fleet, considering your immense numbers.

You okay with these?